Nim threads vs Pthreads
So I'm working with threads, and I've found the Nim threads to be somewhat limitating. Now, I'm wondering what differences are between those two? My main question is: do I get the GC for posix threads too, or I need to set up it by myself?
Re: Variables alignment
I'm new to this so I don't know much, but if I'd to say I'd guess that one reason might be performance and memory. Gcc and clang have the "aligned" attribute and in his C atomics library Jeff Preshing was using that (together with volatile). So there must be cases where it does not align.
Re: Variables alignment
Krux02, from what I've read about lockfree (namely Jeff Preshing's blog: [http://preshing.com](http://forum.nim-lang.org///preshing.com)/ ), one requirement for atomics in x86 (and other architectures) are aligned variables. And about the types anything from 1 to four bytes. Araq,I have already tried that, my problem is that I can't use it inside objects nor tuples, and while I've yet to try I think I can't use it on typedefs neither. I know MSVC always align,but how do I know gcc/clang may align them, from what I've tested gcc aligns global variables.
Variables alignment
Probably this has been answered before, but how I make variables aligned in Nim? I need that because for lockfree programming one of the requirements for atomic operations is that is aligned in memory. How can I do that?
