Immutable Message Passing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/4/11 4:16 PM, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> So it looks like right now, message passing is copying objects, which
> seems very bad. Check this out:
> --------
> import std.stdio;
> import std.concurrency;
>
> class Bob {
> }
>
> void main() {
> 	auto tid = spawn(&func);
> 	auto bob = new shared(Bob)();
> 	writeln("bob is currently at ", cast(void*)(&bob));

This is the address of the reference, not that of the object. Use 
cast(void*)(bob).

Andrei