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CodeRage 2022: Challenges of Multi-threaded Programming

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0

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Delphi Thread Safety Patterns book available on Amazon

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0

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FreeAndNil Debate: Thread Safety

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0

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Anonymous Threads: Use or Lose?

Dalija Prasnikar 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 3 years ago in Delphi, multithreading 0

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Just released book: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns

Dalija Prasnikar 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 3 years ago in book, Delphi, multithreading 0

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This Is How Operating Systems Affect Your Multi-Threaded Cross Platform Apps

Milton Coyne 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 0

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The Ultimate Webinar On Threading And Concurrency

Milton Coyne 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 0

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Overprotecting multithreaded code

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0

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Readers-writer lock – Part 4: Improving TLightweightMREW

gabr42 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 0

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Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programming Book – Paperback Edition and Invitation to Webinar

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0

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Just released: Delphi Event-based and Asynchronous Programming – Complete version – 291 Pages

Dalija Prasnikar 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 0