[Tutor] Kill A Fuction Call?

[Magnus Lycka]

At 07:47 2003-01-09 +0000, Hy Python wrote:
>If all you want is to wait "a certain amount of time", you do not need to 
>kill the thread. When your main thread terminates, all the other thread 
>will die automatically.

But if you have a long running program in your main thread,
you might not like to have big, CPU intensive jobs that you
stopped waiting for running in another thread... For a
server this might be a killer.


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