Parallel Programming

[Sean Kelly]

Pablo Ripolles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as many of you have already read, there is an ongoing discussion about the different paradigms/environments/approaches of parallel programming, particularily aimed towards how to exploite the evenly more common multi-core processors.
> 
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214627
> http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/parallel_programming_environme.html
> 
> I'd like to hear about D community point of view!  Is the std.thread our solution? Is there anyone expecting or following another approach?

This is probably more appropriate for d.D, but the D community has been 
working on other approaches as well.  Mikola Lysenko has implemented 
coroutines and a variant of CAR Hoare's CSP.  And I believe someone has 
implemented Herb Sutter's futures as well.  Also, Tango contains a 
clustering model that could be applied to in-process parallel 
programming fairly easily.  In short, while I think threads are a 
necessary part of parallel programming, I don't think that explicit 
thread management is how most people will be doing parallel programming 
in D.


Sean