Is it a good idea to start a thread from your own constructor?

Question

Is it possible to call the thread_object.start()same object from the constructor?

Is this approach a good idea?

Answer 1

You can do it, but this is considered bad practice. There is one paragraph about the beginning of Threads in the constructors in this article .

AS nicerobot stated in the comments, it seems your question is a duplicate of this . Look at the Heath Borders answer there.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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