DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases - what's wrong with threading?

[Walter Bright]

David Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:57:31AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> David Brown wrote:
>>>   - 'pause/resume' is not a useful thread primitive.  As we've seen by
>>>   sample code, just doing simple things is dreadfully difficult, and
>>>   very easy to get wrong, having deadlocks, starvation, and other
>>>   issues.
>>
>> The main reason for the existence of pause/resume is so the garbage 
>> collector can pause all the threads, do a gc sweep, then resume them.
> 
> I don't think they should go away :-)  I just think there needs to be
> something else to use for synchronization.  Just because it is possible to
> synchronize with pause/resume, doesn't mean one should.

It never occurred to me that someone would use pause/resume for syncing. 
I thought the concepts were orthogonal.