patch to improve thread startup by Larry Campbell

ChangeLog

@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
+2024-01-08 Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]>
+
+	* Source/NSOperation.m: patch for issue #366 by Larry Campbell.
+
 2024-01-08 Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]>
 
 	* Source/NSJSONSerialization.m: Fix for issue #365 ... don't try to
 	create a string ending with the first half of a unicode surrogate pair.
+
 2024-01-08 Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]>
 
 	* Source/NSNotificationCenter.m: fix for memory leak should keep the

Source/NSOperation.m

@@ -1112,17 +1112,13 @@ - (void) _execute
 	}
       else
 	{
-	  NSUInteger	pending;
-
 	  [internal->cond lock];
-	  pending = [internal->starting count];
 	  [internal->starting addObject: op];
 
 	  /* Create a new thread if all existing threads are busy and
 	   * we haven't reached the pool limit.
 	   */
-	  if (0 == internal->threadCount
-	    || (pending > 0 && internal->threadCount < max))
+	  if (internal->threadCount < max)
 	    {
 	      internal->threadCount++;
 	      NS_DURING