Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

When to parallelize the code?

Before you start parallelizing the code, you should understand whether the particular code is a good candidate for parallelization or not. There are some typical examples where parallelization is particularly simple, and there are some where it is really hard to implement.

One of the most common examples is executing long parts of code in the main thread. In Delphi, the main thread is the only one responsible for managing the user interface. If it is running some long task and not processing user interface events, then the user interface is blocked. We can solve this problem by moving the long task into a background thread, which will allow the main thread to manage the user interface. A responsive program makes ...