Well, if a certain platform relies on an external library, multi-threading
could be disabled on that platform through a flag of some kind, at least
until something can be programmed for that platform (or more
conservatively, only enabled if it's known to work without any hitches).
Just an idea. I can't remember off-hand a good enumeration set to include
such a flag in though. If multi-threading is not supported, then it can
just run single-threaded as it does now.
Gareth aka. Kit
On Mon 30/07/18 22:08 , Sven Barth via fpc-devel
fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org sent:
Am 30.07.2018 um 19:55 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe one shortcoming with the
Free Pascal Compiler, despite its speed, is that it isn't multi-threaded.
It can't compile multiple independent units at once, and probably won't be
able to for a while due to the use of global variables in the node
builder. When it comes to building Lazarus and the compiler, this is
gotten around by the Makefiles running several instances of the compiler on
different processes, building independent packages that can later be
linked.
I personally think that if the compiler can be made multi-threaded, then
projects like OpenSceneGraph might see a huge improvement in compile times
if the compiler is smart enough to identify units that don't depend on each
other and compile them in parallel. I'm not sure how cross-compatible it
can be made, since different platforms approach multithreading in different
ways and I've noticed that the compiler tends to avoid using SysUtils and
Classes and the like (so no using TThread for now).
TThread is not a necessity. It's functionality and the synchronization
primitives are based on what TThreadManager provides. This manager resides
in the System unit and is accessible through functions like BeginThread and
such. Please note however that this might need an external thread manager
on certain platforms (e.g. Unix-like systems) and the idea on those
platforms is for the compiler *not* to rely on the C-library.
Regards,
Sven
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