[dmd-concurrency] Shutdown protocol

[Sean Kelly]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Kevin Bealer wrote:
> 
>> So lets say that threads will normally fall into the three camps, that I'll call producers, filters and processors.
> [snip]
>> Main could check if it has any dependents, if desired... (these last bits is kind of off the cuff, so maybe there are huge problems with them.)
> 
> This makes sense, but at this point I'd avoid classifications that don't have a precedent. If Erlang made it without thread kinds, we should too.

To be fair, Erlang also doesn't have this shutdown behavior.