TDPL goes out for preliminary review

[Graham St Jack]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:51:48 +0000, dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s
> article
>> But let's not forget we have concurrency ahead of us. I encourage you
>> all to chime in with your thoughts and ideas regarding all aspects of
>> concurrency. The recent multicore performance bug is a great starting
>> point. If you try e.g. shared and it's broken, let us know. If you try
>> it and it works, push it til it breaks. If you have ideas on how to
>> make semantic checking better, pipe up.
>> Andrei
> 
> I think for this to happen, there needs to be a tutorial somewhere
> explaining what shared is supposed to do (there were so many ideas
> thrown around that I don't remember them all and don't know which ones
> got adopted), and how much of it is already implemented.

I agree. The whole thing is very confused right now, and certainly 
everything I try in my code doesn't work out. The only way I can use 
threads tight now is to avoid use of shared at all. If anyone knows how 
it is supposed to work now, please write out a description.