druntime thread_needLock()

[Leandro Lucarella]

Christopher Wright, el  6 de diciembre a las 09:06 me escribiste:
> Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> >So yes one could probably switch back to the old Phobos style.
> >I would guess that it is not really a common situation for a program to become single threaded again, though...
> >Fawzi
> 
> At work, we have a single-threaded application -- everything happens on the GUI thread. There are some operations that take a long time, though. For those, we 
> throw up a spinny dialog box. But if these operations happened on the GUI thread, the spinny dialog box would not spin. So we do the expensive operations on a 
> background thread.
> 
> So, our application becomes multithreaded on rare occasions and becomes single-threaded again after.
> 
> Not sure how common this is.

I think this is pretty common in GUI applications, but I don't think GUI
applications usually are performance critical, right?

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