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WARNING: Threads are known to not work particularly well. They cause problems with the Garbage Collection, so random segfaults that don’t occur with non-threaded code, is likely because of threads. One day I might re-write the GC to be reference-counted, so this issue will go away.

Thread

inherits Object final

This is a real Thread with all the problems and performance that come with that. See also Thread Synchronisation

methods

• start(callable, arg) starts a new OS thread by calling the callable with the argument
• join() waits until the thread finishes and collects the thread