I finally have some time to take care of non-urgent things and thought I would use it to thank the Xojo team for the great work they did in implementing preemptive threads.
I am very impressed and grateful for how well preemptive threads work in their first iteration.
It is a great pleasure to gradually convert my main application to preemptive threads where it makes sense.
At the same time, while doing this work, I realize how well cooperative threads work in Xojo. Here and there, I switch cooperative threads to preemptive threads, only to find that the app’s UI already worked very well with cooperative threads.
But of course there are also many situations in which I was able to achieve a massive boost by using preemptive threads.
It’s amazing how much more professional Xojo suddenly feels. And it’s so much fun to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the code.
Thank you very much for the fantastic work, Xojo. Thank you! 
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