named arguments, string interpolation, please stop.

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 19:58:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/11/2024 9:56 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> But that doesn't work. If a GC cycle kicks in in between the 
>> thread starting and you having the chance to attach it, you 
>> may end up collecting live objects. This is what killed the 
>> project, BTW.
>> 
>> Having thread that are not managed by the GC is a fine thing 
>> to want, but you got to do it the other way around by 
>> detaching the thread from the GC.
>
> If you could pseudocode a solution, we can add it to the 
> bugzilla issue. Threading issues are not something I have much 
> expertise in.

I've no ideas how you can have a list or external created 
pthreads without horrible hack like hooking pthread_create.

/P