Story Category: multithreading
VOTEDelphi High Performance, Second Edition
gabr42
The second edition of my book Delphi High Performance is now released! Get all 452 pages of Delphi goodness with two new chapters and all the updated and improved content at Amazon or at Packt Publishing!— Published… … Read more
1 year ago in Books, Delphi, high performance, multithreading, programming
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Delphi High Performance, encore!
gabr42
It is so interesting to publish a book for the second time. In a way it is similar to reviewing and fixing old code–you go from “well said, old man!” to a “what the #$%!… … Read more
1 year ago in Books, Delphi, high performance, multithreading, programming
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Assigning result to a function from asynchronous code
Dalija Prasnikar
One of the more common problems that comes up in multi-threading, especially when refactoring existing code, is assigning a result obtained from asynchronous code. In other words, how do you write a function that will… … Read more
2 years ago in Asynchronous programming, Delphi, multithreading
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CodeRage 2022: Challenges of Multi-threaded Programming
Dalija Prasnikar
Here you can find slides from my CodeRage 2022 presentation about Challenges of Multi-threaded Programming, as well as additional links to code examples related to the presentation. Slides: https://dalija.prasnikar.info/dl/DP_CodeRage2022.pdf Additiona… … Read more
2 years ago in CodeRage2022, eventbus, multithreading, Webinar
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Delphi Thread Safety Patterns book available on Amazon
Dalija Prasnikar
Delphi Thread Safety Patterns book is now available as paperback on Amazon, too. https://dalija.prasnikar.info/delphitspatt/While the thread safety of a particular piece of code depends on the surrounding context and how it is used, some data types… … Read more
2 years ago in book, Delphi, multithreading
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FreeAndNil Debate: Thread Safety
Dalija Prasnikar
One of the topics raised in yesterday’s FreeAndNil debate was using FreeAndNil in multi-threaded code for avoiding access to a dangling reference when multiple threads are accessing and using the same object instance. Problem is… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, FreeAndNil, multithreading
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Anonymous Threads: Use or Lose?
Dalija Prasnikar
Anonymous threads are simple to use and are highly appealing when you need to quickly put and execute some small piece of code in a background thread. They work great when they run and complete,… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, multithreading
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Just released book: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns
Dalija Prasnikar
Delphi Thread Safety Patterns Bookhttps://dalija.prasnikar.info/delphitspatt/While the thread safety of a particular piece of code depends on the surrounding context and how it is used, some data types are inherently unsafe, and for some of them,… … Read more
2 years ago in book, Delphi, multithreading
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This Is How Operating Systems Affect Your Multi-Threaded Cross Platform Apps
Milton Coyne
In the early days of computing most regular application programs were single threaded. They often only ran exclusively on the machine’s CPU, or they did not run at all or ran slowly as they competed… … Read more
3 years ago in Coding, cross platform apps, data, Delphi, DelphiCon, DelphiCon 2021, Learn, learn delphi, multithreading, object pascal, programming, Videos
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The Ultimate Webinar On Threading And Concurrency
Milton Coyne
TCoffee and Code is a tremendously popular YouTube series presented by Embarcadero Technologies where expert professional developers engage in a virtual conversation and give the benefit of their experience on a wide range of technology… … Read more
3 years ago in Coding, Concurrency, data, Delphi, Learn, learn delphi, multithreading, object pascal, parallel programming, programming, tcoffee and code, Videos
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Overprotecting multithreaded code
Dalija Prasnikar
Running long tasks in a background thread to keep the UI responsive is one of the main purposes of multithreading. A common code pattern for doing so would look like:procedure TMainForm.BtnClick(Sender: TObject);begin TThread.CreateAnonymousThread( … … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, multithreading, synchronize
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Readers-writer lock – Part 4: Improving TLightweightMREW
gabr42
While the TLightweightMREW is quite handy, it is not perfect. There’s a weird assymmetry in it. On all operating systems that Delphi can compile for, read locks are reentrant (recursive) while write locks are not. In other words,… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, multithreading, programming, synchronization
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Readers-writer lock – Part 3: Some numbers
gabr42
In order to convince you that a readers-writer lock is not a stupid idea, I should finally show some numbers. In this article I’ll present a minimalistic (but still real-life) example which allows us to… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, multithreading, programming, synchronization
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Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programming Book – Paperback Edition and Invitation to Webinar
Dalija Prasnikar
You asked for it, and here it is! The paperback version of the book is here! (I hope Gaia will forgive me again…)Celebrating the release of the new book, “Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programming,” Jim McKeeth… … Read more
4 years ago in Asynchronous programming, book, Delphi, event based programming, multithreading, Webinar
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Just released: Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programming – Complete version – 291 Pages
Dalija Prasnikar
Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programminghttps://dalija.prasnikar.info/delphiebap/index.htmlEvent-based programming is everywhere. Nowadays, you can hardly write any kind of application without leaning on events and messages.This simple, ye… … Read more
4 years ago in Asynchronous programming, book, Delphi, event based programming, multithreading
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