On Jul 20, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Alex Horvat <al...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I use core.thread.Thread to create a new thread associated to a function > like this: > > Thread testThread = new Thread(&DoSomething); > > Will the testThread dispose of itself after DoSomething() completes, or do I > need to join/destroy/somethingelse testThread?
The thread will clean itself up automatically if you don't hold any references to it. In essence, the thread's dtor will conditionally release any handles if join() was never called.
