[fpc-pascal] Threading vs Parallelism ?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri May 5 22:36:55 CEST 2017


In our previous episode, Brian said:
> Affinity
> 
> If a thread is dedicated to say , polling a serial or Ethernet port which
> has a high input data rate , then dedicating one CPU to that task/thread is
> useful.

Well, the driver actually does the hardware, so it is already buffered for
userland ?

> They are very simple to translate into Free Pascal

Please provide patches in the bugtracker then. Linux calls go into the
"linux" unit, pthreads into the pthreads unit, which is general *nix, but
with an include per OS



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