[Lazarus] Is porting Delphi program using AsyncPro to fpc/laz possible?

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/21/2016 01:25 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
> I didn't say anything wouldn't work.
Sorry. I took "issue" for a potential problem
>
> Copying data tends to introduce a significant performance hit, which 
> is why many OSes try to avoid it by passing pointers. The typical 
> result of passing pointers is to introduce the possibility of buffer 
> overflows, because the lower-level (and more privileged) code doesn't 
> (or can't) apply application-specific tests.

Right you are. That i why the second method - if carefully done - would 
create less overhead.

Nonetheless with any transfer to the main thread, a new buffer needs to 
be allocated.

-Michael