Starting Threads

Understand how threads are started in this lesson.

We'll cover the following

- spawn()
- - Passing parameters to threads
- - Limit on number of threads

`spawn()`

spawn() takes a function pointer as a parameter and starts a new thread from that function. Any operations that are carried out by that function, including other functions that it may call, would be executed on the new thread.

The main difference between a thread that is started with spawn() and a thread that is started with task() is the fact that spawn() makes it possible for threads to send messages to each other.

As soon as a new thread is started, the owner and the worker start executing separately as if they were independent programs:

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Introduction

Lifetimes, null Value and the is Operator

Type Conversions

Structs

Variable Number of Parameters

Function Overloading and Member Functions

Constructor and Other Special Functions

Operator Overloading

Introduction to Classes

Inheritance

The Object Class

Interfaces

destroy and scoped

Modules and Libraries

Encapsulation and Protection Attributes

UFCS, Properties and Contract Programming

Templates

Pragmas, alias and with

Pointers

Bit Operations

Conditional Compilation

Function Pointers, Delegates, and Lambdas

foreach with Structs and Classes

Unions, Labels, goto and Tuples

More Templates

More Functions

Mixins

Ranges

static foreach and Parallelism

Message Passing Concurrency

Data Sharing Concurrency

Fibers

Memory Management

User Defined Attributes (UDA) and Operator Precedence

Conclusion

Starting Threads

`spawn()`