"Almost there" version of TDPL updated on Safari Rough Cuts

[Álvaro Castro-Castilla]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> http://my.safaribooksonline.com/roughcuts
> 
> The current version includes virtually the entire book except (a) 
> overloaded operators, (b) qualifiers, (c) threads. In the meantime I 
> have finished the new design and wrote the chapter on overloaded 
> operators. The design got Walter's seal of approval but I'm still 
> waiting for Don's.
> 
> I plan to write the chapter on qualifiers in the next few days, mostly 
> on the plane to and from Quebec. Hopefully Walter ad I will zero in on a 
> solution to code duplication due to qualifiers, probably starting from 
> Steven Schveighoffer's proposal.
> 
> I'll then have one month to design a small but compelling core 
> concurrency framework together with Walter, Sean, and whomever would 
> want to participate. The initial framework will emphasize de facto 
> isolation between threads and message passing. It will build on an 
> Erlang-inspired message passing design defined and implemented by Sean.
> 
> 
> Andrei


Are these threads going to be green, stackless threads? (I think they are actually recursive functions) Or is mostly the share-nothing approach what you bring from Erlang, using system threads? More info please! :)

>From my point of view, I also think this is the best approach to scalable concurrency.