[Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/04/2014 04:02 PM, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
> You can talk to the GPU from different threads (with a little 
> overhead) but you actually gain nothing, because of how the drivers work.
Very wrong, IMHO.

There is a lot to do for the CPU between the user programmer's code 
calls an Language RTL- (LCL-) or Operating System (Widget Set-, 
Windowing-System-, X-) API and the point where the driver is called. 
Multithreading this code will speed up things a lot on a multicore 
engine. (And the user programmer can't do anything to that but just 
define the threads and do the calls within them ... or - as my 
colleagues did - split up the application in multiple programs.)

-Michael