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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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Thread pool

A thread pool pattern can be simply described as a collection of threads. Some of them may be doing useful work, while others are sitting idle, waiting for you to run any job in them.

To the careful reader of this book, the thread pool pattern would seem like an old acquaintance. After all, it is nothing more than a variation on a object pool pattern, which was discussed in Chapter 10, Singleton, Dependency Injection, Lazy Initialization, and Object Pool.

A thread pool is like a taxi service. When you need to travel somewhere, you call the dispatch and as soon as they have a taxi ready, they will send it to pick you up.

Using a thread pool minimizes the time a background task needs to start up. Creating a thread can take some ...

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