One thing I just noticed is that the example doesn't make sure to actually run the new thread to completion before the main thread exists. This means that if y

One thing I just noticed is that the example doesn't make sure to actually run the new thread to completion before the main thread exists. This means that if you do a "drop in other thread" and then main exists, the drop might never run. Which is often fine as the exit of main causes process termination and as such will free the memory normally anyway. But it would be a problem one some systems where memory cleanup on process exit is less reliable. Through such systems are more rare by now I think.