Mattias Gärtner schrieb: > Zitat von Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Think about the alternative: It is much harder to implement the same >>> parallel loop with TThread. So OpenMP makes parallel loops much easier >>> to implement. For me this is the 'Delphi' way: Makes things easy and >>> readable. >>> >> Of course you are right. In the example of "parallel" loops It's _a_lot_ >> easier to to use for the programmer. "Lightweight-threaded" stuff like >> parallel loops was not the original aim of ThreadEvents. The original >> target was a more "standard" use of threads. But it _can_ be used for >> parallel loops, too, and it follows the "Delphi-language-paradigms" a >> lot tighter than using TThread. >> >> I don't suppose that anybody will start implementing real parallel loops >> like suggested on the wiki page any time soon. > > The examples are very artificial to demonstrate the problems. > Some real world examples / tutorials should be added on a new page. Parallel > algorithms are seldom taught in books/schools/university, so programmers are > not used to them. This is slowly improving.
For me the whole OpenMP approach is really artifical, I don't see a real use in real world code for it honestly. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
