On 10/07/14 20:12, Jonathan Marler wrote:
I had an idea this morning and wanted to post it to see what people think.I know we have alot of attributes already but I'm wondering if people think adding a thread attribute could be useful. Something that says a variable or function or class/struct can only be accessed by code that has been tagged with the same thread name. Something like this. // This variable is allocated as a true shared global // with a fixed location in memory since it can only // be accessed by one thread. @thread:main int mainThreadGlobal; @thread:main int main(string[] args) { // Start the worker thread at some point } @thread:worker void workerLoop() { // do some work , cannot access mainThreadGlobal }
I'm not sure I understand but if the variable can only be accessed from a single thread, why not make it thread local?
[SNIP] So what do people think? Like I said I just thought of this and haven't had time think about more corner cases so feel free to nit pick:)
BTW, both of these features sounds like a job for AST macros. -- /Jacob Carlborg
