[Lazarus] Threads in Lazarus code base

[Juha Manninen (gmail)]

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:32:20 Michael Schnell wrote:
>   Maybe you could start an external process for this ....

... and pass the data with temporary text files?
Why would I do that? A thread is lighter, it can see the variables I already 
defined, it is easier to synchronize (WaitFor in this case)...

What is wrong with threads?

Juha