A portable and efficient implementation of a future in Delphi and FreePascal version 1.0

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A portable and efficient implementation of a future in Delphi and
FreePascal version 1.0

Author: Amine Moulay Ramdane.

Description:

A "future" is an object that promises to provide a value sometime in the
future. The value is computed in a background thread. When the
application needs the value, it requests the value from the future--if
the future isn't done, the application waits until the value is ready.

All the synchronization issues are hidden from the application.

Use the TFuture class by deriving a new class that overrides
the Compute method.

I have provided you with a demo inside the zip file, please look at it
inside testfuture.pas file.


You can download it from:

https://sites.google.com/site/scalable68/a-portable-and-efficient-implementation-of-a-future-in-delphi-and-freepascal


Required FPC switches: -O3 -Sd

-Sd for delphi mode....

Required Delphi XE-XE7 and Tokyo switch: -$H+ -DXE

{$DEFINE CPU32} and {$DEFINE Windows32} for 32 bit systems

{$DEFINE CPU64} and {$DEFINE Windows64} for 64 bit systems

- Platform: Windows, Unix and Linux



Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.