On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 22:08:56 UTC, JN wrote:
Am I correctly understanding, that after going out of scope,
it's possible for GC to destroy my thread before the file
finishes loading? How to prevent GC from destroying my thread
before it finishes and make sure the file is loaded completely?
The GC may collect it as soon as there's no reference to the
Thread object anymore. But you'll probably want to keep a
reference anyway, to join it (wait until it's finished),
something like:
Thread loadFileAsync(string path)
{
// start() returns `this`
return new Thread({ writeln(readText(path)); }).start();
}
void main()
{
auto thread = loadFileAsync("foo.txt");
// [do something useful in parallel]
// wait for other thread
thread.join();
}
