Re: Bartosz asks What’s Wrong with the Th

[Bartosz Milewski]

Sean Kelly Wrote:
 
> It would be trivial to implement spawn on top of the Thread object.

Not so trivial, as I would like the spawn function to be a variadic template. 

> And
> the reverse would work as well, though it would be less practical.  After
> all, some data must be used to represent a thread even with the spawn
> model, and it would be silly to graft a thread abstraction a few layers
> above this.

I didn't discuss the details of spawn, but I see it as returning a ThreadHandle struct holding the ID and providing methods that operate on the thread--essentially all the Thread methods except run.