[Lazarus] Threads in Lazarus code base

[Michael Schnell]

  On 09/15/2010 12:38 PM, Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote:
> 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)...
Linux is very good with passing data via pipes. stdout is always present 
and can be captured by the parent process. This in fact is the "Unix  
way" to do those things (rather than using Threads). But I am sure it 
can be done with windows and Mac, too.
> What is wrong with threads?
>
>

Nothing. It's just error-prone. Enabling CThreads slightly reduces the 
overall performance, but I don't think it's relevant.

-Michael