What to avoid for performance reasons in multithreaded code?

Question

I\'m currently reviewing/refactoring a multithreaded application which is supposed to be multithreaded in order to be able to use all the available cores and theoretically deliv

Answer 1

I'm using Delphi 7

You might be using COM objects, then, explicitly or implicitly; if you are, COM objects have their own complications and restrictions on threading: Processes, Threads, and Apartments.