[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> 
> That's true. The general problem is not that the IDE is not
> responsive when compiling/linking but that compiling/linking takes so
> long.

FPC is a fast compiler and more speed is obviously also nice. The 
compiling is not the issue to me, it's the unresponsive IDE that gets 
me. I would like it to be similir to other users experiences. For 
example, you can print a large document and continue browsing your text 
or changing some setting in the menus etc... It doesn't block you from 
continuing. The Lazarus IDE does.

I compile very often - probably once every minute or two. I also 
practise Test-Drive Development, which makes sure you compile often. I 
would like to start a full build (which could take a while for large 
projects) and continue writing fpdoc documentation or start a new unit 
test (obviously without saving before the compile is complete) etc...

It's called "multi-tasking". Ever heard of it? ;-)


Regards,
   - Graeme -

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