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Delphi High Performance

You're reading from   Delphi High Performance Build fast Delphi applications using concurrency, parallel programming and memory management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625456
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. About Performance FREE CHAPTER 2. Fixing the Algorithm 3. Fine-Tuning the Code 4. Memory Management 5. Getting Started with the Parallel World 6. Working with Parallel Tools 7. Exploring Parallel Practices 8. Using External Libraries 9. Best Practices 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up a communication channel

The biggest problem of TThread is that it only allows communication to flow from the background thread to the owner.  As you've seen in the previous chapter, we can use different mechanisms for that—Windows messages, Synchronize, Queue, and polling. There is, however, no built-in way to send messages in a different direction, so you have to build such a mechanism yourself. This is not entirely trivial.

Another problem with built-in mechanisms is that they make for unreadable code. Synchronize and Queue are both inherently messy because they wrap a code that executes in one thread inside a code executing in a different thread. Messages and polling have a different problem. They decouple code through many different methods, which sometimes makes it hard to understand the system.

To fix all these problems (and undoubtedly introduce...

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