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Starting Threads

Explore how to start threads in D programming with the spawn function. Understand how threads run independently, pass parameters, and communicate through messages. Learn about thread limits, CPU-bound and I/O-bound threads to manage concurrency effectively.

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. ...