- Author: Martin Harvey
- Format: online HTML
- Price: free
This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in improving performance and responsiveness in their Delphi applications by using threads. It covers a range of topics from absolute beginner to intermediate level, and some of the real world examples raise issues bordering on the advanced. It assumes that the reader has a reasonable knowledge of Object Pascal programming, including simple object orientation, and a working understanding of event based programming.
Chapters include:
- What are threads? Why use them?
- Creating a thread in Delphi.
- Basic synchronization.
- Simple thread destruction.
- More thread destruction. Deadlock.
- More synchronization: Critical sections and mutexes.
- Mutex programming guidelines. Concurrency control.
- Delphi thread safe classes and Priorities.
- Semaphores. Data flow scheduling. The producer – consumer relationship.
- I/O and data flow: from blocking to asynchronous and back.
- Synchronizers and Events.
- More Win32 synchronization facilities.
- Using threads in conjunction with the BDE, Exceptions and DLLs.
- A real world problem, and its solution.
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