Revamped concurrency API

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Occasionally people here ask for ways in which they can help D. One 
> thing that would be extremely helpful at this point would be to help 
> defining and implementing D's new concurrency API. Unfortunately, 
> Bartosz has declined to contribute. That leaves Walter, Sean, Don, and 
> participants to this group to do it.
> 
> I'm sure you know the three of us are overcommitted, and I'm also sure 
> many of you are also in that situation. But if we could somehow focus 
> all of the energy and good will in this group to one task of 
> extraordinary urgency and importance, that would be awesome.
> 
> If anyone has ideas, suggestions, and code to help defining a new 
> concurrency API for D, please post.
> 
> 
> Andrei

Don't fix it to one model, leave room for multiple concurrency models to 
be used side by side!

I would begin by making the 'shared' specs usable, since the rest will 
be within the runtime and everything will rely on shared. I already made 
a post on this some time ago:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=96161

Jeremie