dlib.core.thread

dlib.core.thread

This module provides a platform-independent multithreading API. For now, it supports Windows and Posix threads (pthreads). The interface is greatly inspired by core.thread from Phobos, but dlib.core.thread is fully GC-free and can be used with dlib.core.memory allocators.

Implementation notes:

• No TLS support, sorry. Any global variables should be marked with __gshared for correct access from threads.
• Internals of Thread class are platform-dependent, so be aware of that when inheriting.

class Thread

Base class for creating threads.

Methods:

• this(void function() func) - initialize with a function pointer
• this(void delegate() func) - initialize with a delegate
• void start() - start the thread. This method returns immediately
• void join() - wait for the thread to terminate
• bool isRunning() - check if the thread is running
• void terminate() - terminate the thread immediately. This functionality is unsafe, use with care.

Usage example

void threadFunc()
{
    // do some job
}

Thread t = New!Thread(&threadFunc);
t.start();