Threads and static initialization.

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-12-17 16:47:05 -0500, wrzosk <dprogr at gmail.com> said:

> I believe that when new thread is being created, all static data is 
> initialized inside new thread. What worries me is the fact, that many 
> 'mini' threads will initialize all static data inside application. This 
> may be somewhat time consuming.
> Maybe there should be a possibility to define 'Pure' thread that doesnt 
> touch any static data, and in turn it could leave static constructors 
> untouched.
> 
> What do you think

You mean something like this:

	pure void doSomething(Tid parent) {
		int result = 1 + 1;
		parent.sendMessage(result);
	}

	void main() {
		spawn(&doSomething);
		... wait for message ...
	}

Perhaps 'spawn' could do this when you feed it with a pure function.

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