How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

[ParticlePeter]

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 12:19:00 UTC, 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
>
> Though you need to be extra careful not to use thread-local 
> storage (e.g. only shared static and __gshared) and not to rely 
> on (shared) static {con|de}structors, dynamic arrays, 
> associative arrays, exceptions, classes, RAII, etc., which is 
> really not worth it, unless you're writing very low-level code 
> (e.g. OS kernels and drivers).
>
> [1]: https://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread#.thread_detachThis
> [2]: https://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory#.GC.disable
> [3]: https://dlang.org/phobos/std_parallelism#.taskPool

Forgot to mention, I'll try this first, I think its a good first 
step towards -BetterC usage. But in the end I want to see how far 
I can get with the -BetterC feature.