recycling thread IDs

2005-01-17 Thread David Nicol
i noticed the threads documentation says that thread IDs count upwards to infinity. We could recycle old thread IDs in a FIFO way using a strategy similar to the indices in Array::Frugal. In short, when an ID is returned, it is placed at the top of the stack, and the stack of free IDs is managed

Re: recycling thread IDs

2005-01-17 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:24:29AM -0600, David Nicol wrote: i noticed the threads documentation says that thread IDs count upwards to infinity. We could recycle old thread IDs in a FIFO way using a strategy similar to the indices in Array::Frugal. This would serve no purpose that I can