Revamped concurrency API

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Robert Jacques wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:19:30 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> MIURA Masahiro wrote:
>>> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>>>> I also don't believe one model is "ruling them all".
>>>
>>> Let me clarity this, just in case I have caused an unnecessary
>>> confusion:  I think Sean's Erlang-like API is meant to coexist
>>> with the current core.thread, and that you can use one or both
>>> of them to build higher-level concurrency models.
>>>
>>> I think it's nice to have core.thread *and* message-passing API
>>> in Phobos.  Thread alone is too primitive for daily use, but
>>> we don't want to have too many concurrency models.
>>
>> Absolutely! I agree. We need to attack the beast with everything we 
>> have.   
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> I'd recommend reading Bartosz's blog on thread objects vs spawn 
> (http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/spawning-a-thread-the-d-way/). 
> It makes a really good case for why thread objects should never be 
> sub-classed and therefore should be a private, hidden implementation 
> detail and not a public API.

I reviewed that article so I guess I read it :o). Bartosz's position is 
held by many people in the C++ threading community.

Andrei