RE: Re: Thread.Join and the main thread

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:56, Thong (Tum) Nguyen wrote:
> > My personal preference for threads is that in a non-threaded program
> > there shouldn't be any extra threads.  Indeed, I would like to see
> > hb_gc.c not start a finalizer thread if there is only one thread running
> > - instead it should just run the finalizers synchronously.
> > 
> 
> Making the GC synchronous until the first thread is created is something I
> was considering.  However, that doesn't solve the mainThread.Join() issue.

No, it doesn't.  I just didn't want to see it solved by making
a single threaded app start 4 threads, rather than the current
3.

Personally, I thought your second solution was better.  It
seemed nice and consistent that all threads, including the
one whose entry point is main(), go through very similar
startup and exit code.