Unexpected threads observed before main()

[Keivan Shah]

I had recently updated my dmd version to latest, i.e from 2.076.1 
(I know, sorry) to 2.095.0 and suddenly my code has started 
spawning extra threads which were not there before with no 
obvious reasons, after trying to simplify and identify the cause 
as much as possible, I have come up with this snippet of code:

module test;
// PART 1
class SomeClass
{
}
static this() // Works in both cases, "static this" as well as 
"shared static this"
{
new SomeClass;
}

// PART 2
class TestThread
{
     static this() // Works in both cases, "static this" as well 
as "shared static this"
     {
         import core.memory;
         GC.collect;
     }
}

void main() // Voila! Extra 5 threads before starting main!
{
     import std;
     import core.thread;
     auto pid = getpid;
     // Linux hack to prevent having to do `top` and check num of 
threads
     writeln(" NumThreads: ", dirEntries("/proc/" ~ pid.to!string 
~ "/task/", SpanMode.shallow).array.length);
     // writeln("PID: ", pid, " NumThreads: ", 
Thread.getAll.length); // This doesn't seem to give the right 
number
     while(true){}
}

This when running on my local Linux machine with dmd-2.095.0 
shows that 6 threads are running but on running with dmd-2.076.1 
(Sorry, haven't tried on all other dmds in between) gives only 1 
thread. Something seems to be off here and to make it even more 
confusing, when running this on run.dlang.io, it seems to only 
give 1 thread. Is there something obviously wrong that I am doing 
or this could be a potential bug in D runtime?