The GC and performance, but not what you expect

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 29 May 2014 16:01:16 -0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 19:00:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> If it's single threaded, and the single thread is doing the collecting,  
>> who is starting up a new thread?
>
> class Foo {
>       ~this() {
>           auto t = new Thread({ auto a = new char[100]; });
>           t.start();
>       }
> }

It's my understanding that dtors are run without the lock held. Is that no  
longer true?

-Steve