std.concurrency: Add join() to prevent thread resource leaks #10894
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Add a new
join(Tid)function that allows explicit joining of threads created by spawn(). This prevents OS resource leaks in long-running applications that create many short-lived threads.Without calling join(), thread stacks (~8 MB each on typical systems) accumulate in virtual memory for the lifetime of the process because:
The new join() function:
Motivating example:
Output: