Will D 2.0 concurrency be supported between processes?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

retard wrote:
> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:32:19 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Michal Minich wrote:
>>> Will the currently-being-designed message-passing concurrency be
>>> supported between OS processes? Or only OS threads supported is
>>> planned? Others may be probably interested in: light-weight threads,
>>> cooperative concurrency and communication through network? If the
>>> implementation is not planned for initial release, is it planned for
>>> foreseeable future?
>>>
>>> Thank you for answer.
>> Right now we don't have time to focus on more than inter-thread
>> communication. Sean and I had a pow-wow last week and decided we don't
>> have the resources to address more than that. But definitely the design
>> has an eye on future extensibility, of which inter-process communication
>> is an obvious extension.
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> I haven't seen a single mention of what kind of algoritms can be solved 
> efficiently with this framework. Is it good for parallel algorithms like 
> parallel matrix multiplication, merge sort, producer/consumer problems, 
> serving web pages, rendering fractals, blitting images, parallel parsing, 
> handling RPC or GUIs?

Must mean you haven't looked. Message passing is a well-understood paradigm.

Andrei