We have a problem!!! The test project /fcl/tests/threads.pp as well as a Sort Demo (Bubble, Section and Quick Sort) all execute the threads in sequence, waiting for the previous thread to complete, before the next one executes. Kind of defeats the point of using threads.
The Sort Demo, which is a port of the Threads demo included with Delphi 7, shows this clearly. I can archive and post the source, but you would need Lazarus LCL to run it as it is visual. The sort demo has three columns with identical random data. The three sort methods are applied to each column respectively and gives visual feedback as it sorts the data (horizontal lines of different lengths). The threads.pp test project in fcl, shown a lot of a's on the screen and after a while, starts displaying b's on the screen. Looking at the source, I gather the a's and b's are supposed to be mixed as each thread gets processor time. I am using FPC 2.1.1 (svn version from a week ago) and running it under Ubuntu Linux 6.10 on x86 CPU (Pentium 4). Regards, - Graeme - -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
