Removing Threads

[Eversome]

Hey, I was just wondering if there was some way to remove a thread after it finishes. I want to do this because:

(a.) Two threads can't have the same name. Unusable threads are a waste of space.
(b.) I can't use thread:start() to restart the thread until 0.9.0 ):
(c.) I hate the finished thread's guts and I want it to burn in a firey death.

[bartbes]

You need to wait on it for it to get cleaned up.

[Eversome]

You need to wait on it for it to get cleaned up.

Alright, thanks for clearing that up. It wasn't exactly clear in the wiki

[T-Bone]

I guess garbage collection takes care of it? In that case, you have to make sure you don't have any references to it, just like any other object.

[Eversome]

It seems that if I call :wait() on the finished thread and then :start() directly after, it restarts the thread rather than cleaning it up. Is this intended behavior?

[raidho36]

Well, you kept the reference, so how did you expected thread to get cleaned?

[Eversome]

Hmm. If I use return at the bottom of a thread, does it empty the thread's message pool?

[raidho36]

To get rid of reference? Erm, no.

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mythread = nil

[bartbes]

Hmm. If I use return at the bottom of a thread, does it empty the thread's message pool?

It doesn't. There's an implicit return anyway. That said, when the thread object is garbage collected, then it will destroy the messages with it.