[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Marc Weustink wrote:
> 
> Don't know about the others, but compiling is done by a separate 
> process, so there is a chance that your os runs it in a different core.

That's not the same as running it in a separate thread though - is it?

Quoted from a Posix Thread tutorial I found on the internet.
   http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html

"Threads require less overhead than "forking" or spawning a new process 
because the system does not initialize a new system virtual memory space 
and environment for the process."


So wouldn't it be more efficient to create a new thread for the compiler 
instead of a new process?


Regards,
   - Graeme -

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