And besides, its the garbage collector that's doing it - not the threading module itself.
I'm not a C expert, but I believe that the output log files will be removed in the final version (I think there's nothing in the license - if any - complaing about it!). If you ever have seen the blitzmax' source module there are/there were some 'debuglog ...' statements commented out - it's normal during a beta stage.
it hasn't been updated for months.
Yes, you are right.
From the SVN log file the last updated is on 25th sept 2008. But this doesn't mean that is STOPPED or unfinished.
And to be honest I haven't seen to much 'bug reports or complaing or help requests' about running Multithreading code on blitzmax in the last month...
Probably (my own speculation!) BRL is doing some experiments WITH Max3d and Threads.mod...
Consider when Mark posted something in his own worklog: we have no more news about anything, but this is normal.