std.parallelism: Naming?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-04-16 14:39:23 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> said:

> 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.

While "parallelism" might be too general, isn't it true that it's too 
specific at the same time? I mean, the module includes a concurrent 
task system, some sugar to parallelize loops using tasks (foreach, map, 
reduce), and an async buffer implementation also based on tasks. Of 
those, which are truly parallelism?


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