Pure functions in D

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> 
>>  >Pure functions can be executed asynchronously.
>> Do you realistically expect the compiler to be able to determine on 
>> its own when it is worthwhile to perform such asynchronous call? Will 
>> it be okay for the compiler to create and destroy threads under the 
>> hood, without programmer intervention?
> 
> If threads/cores get cheap enough, I think this can be done. In the 
> meantime, pure functions make great arguments to 'futures' calls.

What if a function is pure but memory expensive? Say we are in loop, and 
the compiler spawns, say, 8 threads to run that function 
asynchronously... that could increase the program's memory consumption 8 
fold, all under the hood.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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