[fpc-pascal] Threading vs Parallelism ?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 20/04/17 09:00, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:> > In any event, processes on unix are *defined* as owning resources- > memory, handles and so on- while threads only manage control flow. I > believe that MS also have "fibers" which are non-preemptive threads.
> They are not really threads. They must be scheduled within threads.
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682661(v=vs.85).aspx
> from the article they don't seem to have that many advantages, except toconvert existing manual m:n scheduling apps.

Which effectively makes them coroutines, but since they're MS-only 
they're nonportable. Which is more or less where Ryan started off the 
other thread.

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