Re: How are theads, Tid and spawn related?

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Note that thread_joinAll is called automatically when main exits, 
so if you just want to be sure that your spawned thread completes 
you don't have to do anything at all.

The decision to obscure the Thread object in std.concurrency was 
deliberate, as it allows us to use more than just kernel threads 
for concurrency. The thread may even live in another process and 
the message sent via IPC. If you want to start an asynchronous 
task and wait for it to complete I suggest the method Ali 
outlines above. You can also create a Thread directly. What we 
should really have for this sort of thing is futures, but they 
don't exist yet. std.parallelism might be worth a look as well, 
since it has a task queue.