do we need separate thread for FirstThread

Thu Feb 8 13:22:00 GMT 2001

Per Bothner wrote:
> The last I think is the killer argument, but the other ones
> are also worth noting.

Besides everything you said, core files from single-threaded apps might become
usable.
I'd like to know if the runtime could become self-initializing as well so that
startup could be as easy as invoking e.g. Hello::main(args).
> So what are the arguments in favor of
> starting a separate native thread?

The main thread doesn't do anything but watch the non-daemon thread count and
decide when to exit. However I'd think that could be done in the thread cleanup
instead.
ISTR one reason for _Jv_ThreadWait was to support quick threads. But I don't
know if that matters anymore; quick-threads was removed from the repository long
ago.
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Jeff Sturm
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