std.parallelism: Naming?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/16/11 1:39 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> I'm reconsidering the naming of std.parallelism. The name is catchy, but
> perhaps too general. std.parallelism currently targets SMP parallelism.
> In the future it would be nice for Phobos to target SIMD parallelism and
> distributed message passing parallelism, too. These might belong in
> different modules. Then again, std.smp or std.multicore or something
> just doesn't sound as catchy. SIMD would probably just be array ops and
> stuff. Distributed message passing would probably be absorbed by
> std.concurrency since the distinction between concurrency and
> parallelism isn't as obvious at this level and std.concurrency is
> already the home of message passing stuff. Please comment.

I don't mind std.parallelism one bit.

Andrei