[Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

[bearophile]

dsimcha:

> Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and 
> parallelism for D's article contest.  It's not an official submission 
> yet, but feedback would be appreciated.
> 
> http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/

I have given a first quick read to your article, later I will read it again better. Thank you for the article, that's also an explanation of your parallelism module.

>Unless the type system becomes so complex that computer science Ph.Ds can’t wrap their heads around it or<

I am not sure of this.


>It might generate random numbers from a thread-local random number generator instance.<

This may help:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5249


>It might really be pure but not marked as such because the discipline required to recursively mark it and all functions it calls pure doesn’t scale much better than any other form of discipline in programming.<

If an important module of Phobos as yours doesn't want to or can't use one important feature of D2, like pure annotations, then it may mean the feature isn't well implemented yet, or the design of this part of D2 has failed.

Bye,
bearophile