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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide
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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

by Primož Gabrijelčič
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
674 pages
15h
English
Packt Publishing
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Async/Await

Tasks are powerful but clumsy. The real power of modern multithreading libraries comes not from them, but from specialized code designed to solve specific usage patterns (pattern or a parallel pattern for short). Although I intend to cover all of the patterns implemented in the Parallel Programming Library, I'll start with a pattern you won't find there.

The Async/Await pattern comes from .NET. It allows you to start a background task (async) and execute some code in the main thread after the task completes its work (await). In Delphi, we cannot repeat the incredible usefulness of the .NET syntax, as it requires support from the compiler, but we can approximate it with something that is useful enough. Such an implementation can ...

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