Threads and static initialization.

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday 17 December 2010 16:02:27 Michel Fortin wrote:
> 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.

That would only work if send() can be pure, and I really doubt that it can be. 
If it _can_, then that might be a good optimization, but I'm betting that it 
can't be done. Someone more familiar with how send() work would have to say on 
that though, since I'm not intimately familiar with how send() works.

- Jonathan M Davis