Thread pause and resume

[Steve Teale]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> == Quote from Steve Teale (steve.teale at britseyeview.com)'s article
> > Sean Kelly Wrote:
> > > == Quote from Steve Teale (steve.teale at britseyeview.com)'s article
> > > >
> > > > In some code I wrote at that time, I had a worker thread pool. When a thread had done its job it would mark itself as
> available then
> > > pause. The listener thread would then resume it or start one that had never been started. I'm trying to get it running in
> 2.26. There
> > > are functions of the same name there but they are nested inside SuspendAll and ResumeAll, and so not accessible.
> > >
> > > This sounds like a classic producer/consumer case.  I suggest using condition
> > > variables (core.sync.condition with core.sync.mutex).
> > The problem is at the moment, that the D documentation covers the language, and Phobos - the latter option exposes Object
> to some extent.
> > Anything that is in core.* is undocumented and you have to 'rtfsc' - if you can find it. I can't even find "core.sync" in D files
> under dmd. Can you point me in the right direction please.
> 
> Darnit... core.sync is supposed to be in src/druntime/import/core/sync, but it isn't
> there for some reason.  I thought this issue had been fixed.  Well, in theory it should
> be there, and I'm working on getting the docs integrated with the Phobos docs.  They're
> already generated by the build...

A straight answer to a straight question. Thanks Sean. I'll change my code to let used threads die, and start new ones until I see this stuff.