Starting and stopping threads
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Spawning new threads:
Creating and spawning a thread can be factored out into two separate steps:
Threads stop either when the quotation given to spawn returns, or when the following word is called:
If the image is saved and started again, all runnable threads are stopped. Vocabularies wishing to have a background thread always running should use add-startup-hook.
spawn ( quot name -- thread )
spawn-server ( quot name -- thread )
Creating and spawning a thread can be factored out into two separate steps:
<thread> ( quot name -- thread )
(spawn) ( thread -- )
Threads stop either when the quotation given to spawn returns, or when the following word is called:
stop ( -- * )
If the image is saved and started again, all runnable threads are stopped. Vocabularies wishing to have a background thread always running should use add-startup-hook.