How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

[Petar]

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 12:30:49 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 09/11/2017 12:19 PM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 11:08:21 UTC, ParticlePeter 
>> wrote:
>>> Any experience reports or general suggestions?
>>> I've used only D threads so far.
>> 
>> It would be far easier if you use druntime + @nogc and/or 
>> de-register latency-sensitive threads from druntime [1], so 
>> they're not interrupted even if some other thread calls the 
>> GC. Probably the path of least resistance is to call [2] and 
>> queue @nogc tasks on [3].
>> 
>> If you really want to pursue the version(D_BetterC) route, 
>> then you're essentially on your own to use the threading 
>> facilities provided by your target OS, e.g.:
>> 
>> https://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_create
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682516(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> You can use a library like libuv to handle threads 
> (non-language based TLS too, not sure that it can be tied in 
> unfortunately).

Yeah, any cross-platform thread-pool / event loop library with C 
interface should obviously be preferred than manual use of raw 
thread primitives.

Essentially, try to follow Sean Parent's advice on "No 
Raw/Incidental *":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zULU6Hhp42w