TLF = thread local functions

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Friday, 24 January 2014 at 06:03:27 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:

> no - the parameters and local vars of the function are in the 
> stack of the thread - so there is no problem with them, only 
> shared variables can have a need to synchronization
>
> your idea tries to solve non existing problems?

...Unless the thread is started with a delegate (literal or 
member function), which implicitly gains an unsynchronized view 
of its enclosing scope (or class). Granted, the "default" D's 
spawning function, std.concurrency.spawn, being restrictive like 
a firm parent, simply would not allow this. However, it may 
sometimes be feasible to do so (using Thread interface directly), 
although this is a case for "I know what I'm doing" category.

If we had a way of explicitly capturing variables for delegate 
literals, the problem with delegates could go away altogether.