Article about problems & suggestions for D 2.0

[Sean Kelly]

The effect on storage for statics is fantastic. I wasn't suggesting changing that, if that's what you meant. 

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On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> On 2011-08-31 00:01:09 +0000, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> said:
> 
>> I'd like to say that the 'shared' attribute on member functions should
>> just mean "make this member visible through a shared reference" and do
>> away with the memory barriers idea entirely, except that D really does
>> need some form of atomics.  I'm really not sure what the solution is
>> here.
> 
> I think D needs some kind of knowledge about memory regions into its type system. The challenge is to not add too much complexity.
> 
> 
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