On 05/23/2014 05:46 PM, Craig Peterson wrote:
On 5/23/2014 2:09 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
rather simple:
- declaring the event method as something like "closure" resulting it
having it do an auto-free on exit.
more advanced (needing the RTL to provide pool of threads to fire on
demand):
- "parallel loop" and "future" support like in "Prism"
(In fact I don't see "anonymous functions" - see thread topic - here.)
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking/proposing. Yes, there are
alternative syntaxes for closures that might be more "Pascalish", but I
want something that's compatible with Delphi because we need to keep
using it on Windows for the foreseeable future.
Hmmm
"parallel loop" and "future" in fact _is_ "compatible with Delphi": here
Delphi Prism. (It's not the fault of Lazarus, that Delphi is not
compatible with itself :-( .)
The discussion has somehow moved from, "anonymous functions" do "OpenMP
support".
I understand that "anonymous functions" is some kind of "syntax candy"
for stuff that - with some additional typing - could be done without,
"OpenMP support" is about allowing parallel work - especially useful on
the now ubiquitous multi-processor boxes - by means of the rtl.
"parallel loop" and "future" is about syntax candy for parallel
execution - e.g. via OpenMP.
So my question was about the real target of the discussion.
-Michael
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