Multicore

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Good afternoon (o;

Looking at the Xojo comparison table I see that for Desktop licenses and above Multicore is enabled.

Are there special programming techniques in Xojo to benefit from Multicore or is that totally transparent to the developer/user?

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You have to use the Worker system. You are better off writing your own console helper app. Workers run as cooperative threads in debug, so you can’t properly test them.

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I do not recommend start with Workers (at this point) because it looks like something different will be part of 2024r3, see this Issue.

As Tim said write a console app if you need something now or wait and see what 2024r3 is all about.

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Thanks for the clarifications (o;

So I’ll stick now with macOS Lite as Linux is free now and I don’t have the need to do any Windows version…

Only reason would be to go for Pro license. But then again, no need now for Mobile or Web Apps now, as I’m going for Mobile the XCode way and for Web I do PHP/JS/PSQL since twenty years now (o;