std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Don]

Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:32 -0400, dsimcha wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> 
>> Soon.  I'm praying that I can figure out makefiles in that time to check 
>> std.parallelism in, since I think they're harder to work with than 
>> multithreading.  (Ok, I'm exaggerating.)  Among the other major 
>> improvements in this release:
> 
> Isn't Make 1970s technology, I'd have thought D would use more
> up-to-date build technology than that -- even though Go uses it and
> refuses to look at other options.
> 
>> std.net.isemail
>>
>> massive GC optimizations for large allocations (~25% for very small ones 
>> to several hundred fold for huge ones)
>>
>> core.cpuid works on 64-bit
> 
> I guess this is still assembler level stuff though, and hence the code
> is not portable?

Yes. The main functionality it gives is the processor instruction set. 
For example, whether the processor has SSE2. I don't think it's of much 
use unless you are writing asm code. (It's currently used by the 
runtime, and by BigInt).

> 
>> temporary object destruction
>>
>> massive amounts of CTFE fixes
>