DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases - what's wrong with threading?

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, Java has pause/resume as deprecated members of 
>> its Thread class.  I suspect they originally included them for garbage 
>> collection as well, and deprecated them when people started using them 
>> for synchronization (they're a fantastic way to deadlock an app).  
>> Doug Lea's containers and such use them, for example, because Java 
>> does not offer standalone mutexes, semaphores, etc.
> 
> Hum, what do you mean by "standalone mutexes, semaphores, etc."?

I mean standalone synchronization primitives.  As far as I know, the 
only way to suspend a thread in Java is via Thread.pause().  This makes 
it possible to /implement/ a semaphore, but doing so basically requires 
implementing a scheduling/priority policy as well.  By comparison, a D 
app can simply use the OS API for this stuff, because there's no VM to 
worry about.


Sean