Google Summer of Code 2016 Ideas Page

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 13:53 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:
> On Friday, 6 November 2015 at 09:07:36 UTC, Gerald Jansen wrote:
> > On Friday, 6 November 2015 at 03:17:59 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
> > wrote:
> > > The ideas page for the 2016 Google Summer of Code is now up:
> > > 
> > > http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas
> > 
> > Concerning "Phobos: D Standard Library", specifically 
> > std.parallel, how about "a fork()-backend to std.process OR 
> > std.parallel" as mentioned in this post [1].
> > 
> > [1] 
> > http://forum.dlang.org/post/lpktvvgesolvoprjwrln@forum.dlang.org
> 
> Would you be interested in mentoring that?
> 
> Also, for anything Phobos related it would be good to have 
> general consensus that the project would eventually make its way 
> into std.experimental at least. The discussion you linked to 
> proposed the idea, but there wasn't much follow on. Perhaps a 
> proposal should be floated on the General thread.

Sadly I am not really sure what that comment was suggesting. Given
there was a claim of 3x speed up there must have been code. If that
code could be put forward then experiments could be run. Possibly
something for GSoC in that alone.

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Russel.
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