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Commit 40668abc authored by Sam McCall's avatar Sam McCall
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[Support] Add a way to run a function on a detached thread

This roughly mimics `std::thread(...).detach()` except it allows to
customize the stack size. Required for https://reviews.llvm.org/D50993.

I've decided against reusing the existing `llvm_execute_on_thread` because
it's not obvious what to do with the ownership of the passed
function/arguments:

1. If we pass possibly owning functions data to `llvm_execute_on_thread`,
   we'll lose the ability to pass small non-owning non-allocating functions
   for the joining case (as it's used now). Is it important enough?
2. If we use the non-owning interface in the new use case, we'll force
   clients to transfer ownership to the spawned thread manually, but
   similar code would still have to exist inside
   `llvm_execute_on_thread(_async)` anyway (as we can't just pass the same
   non-owning pointer to pthreads and Windows implementations, and would be
   forced to wrap it in some structure, and deal with its ownership.

Patch by Dmitry Kozhevnikov!

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51103
parent 4b63ca13
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