std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Sean Kelly]

Bootstrapping issue. Make is almost guaranteed to exist, while the fancier tools are not. 

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On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> 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?
> 
>> temporary object destruction
>> 
>> massive amounts of CTFE fixes
> 
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