Delphi offers many tools to write multithreaded programs. As this is a book about patterns, not about parallel programming, I will not be able to go into much detail on that topic. Still, it is good to know which tools you have available so that you can do additional research in your own time.
In this introductory section, I will walk you through the Delphi tools that facilitate the writing of multithreaded applications. The DelphiThreading
project from the Parallel programming in Delphi
folder provides a simple example for every one of them.
Note
For more details, you can refer to Chapters 6 and Chapter 7 of my book, Delphi High Performance (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1788625455), published by Packt Publishing.
A standard platform-independent way to create a new thread in Delphi is to create a descendant of a TThread
class (implemented in the System.Classes
unit) and override its Execute
method. Delphi will use operating system functions to create a new thread...