Implementing multithreading policy templates in D?

[Brian Price]

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> Brian Price wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > While implementing a design I ran into a need for multiple implementations
> > with different threading policies.  It looked to me as if porting Loki's
> > Threading Model policies over to D would be just the ticket. 
> > Unfortunately there's no mutex-like class in Phobos that I can find and
> > Object's monitor is not exposed so no way to acquire/release on it other
> > than through synchronized.
<< -- snip --- >>
> > Having used about every 'mainstream' language over the past twenty odd
> > years, I figure either I'm missing something huge and need to learn an
> > entirely new approach or there's something missing from the standard
> > library.  So I'm left with three questions:
> > 
> > Did I miss something in the docs/std lib code?
> > 
> > Is there a way to implement flexible threading policies using synchronized
> > statements?
> > 
> > What are the chances we'll see Object sporting wait/notify methods or
> > lock/unlock methods in a future release?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> 
> Tango should have most (if not all) the threading primitives you need - to
> be frank, for any serious threading code, Phobos doesn't cut it.
> 
> -- 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
> blog at http://larsivi.net
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> Dancing the Tango

Thank you for your quick reply.  I've looked at Tango and it does seem to have an abundance, any idea when it will be ported to D 2.x?

Brian