Threading Questions

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 03:05 +0000, bitwise via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:47:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > I hadn't answered as I do not have answers to the questions you 
> > ask. My reason: people should not be doing their codes using 
> > these low-level shared memory techniques. Data parallel things 
> > should be using the std.parallelism module. Dataflow-style 
> > things should be using spawn and channels – akin to the way you 
> > do things in Go.
> > 
> > So to give you an answer I would go back a stage, forget 
> > threads, mutexes, synchronized, etc. and ask what do you want 
> > you workers to do? If they are to do something and return a 
> > result then spawn and channel is exactly the right abstraction 
> > to use. Think "farmer–worker", the farmer spawns the workers 
> > and then collects their results. No shared memory anywyere – at 
> > least not mutable.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGs7JU7eM
> 
>      Bit

What's the tl;dr as text, I very, very rarely watch videos.

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