std.parallelism: Request for Review

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/26/11 3:13 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> I've taken care of all of the issues Andrei mentioned a while back with
> regard to std.parallelism. I've moved the repository to Github
> (https://github.com/dsimcha/std.parallelism/wiki), updated/improved the
> documentation
> (http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/std_parallelism.html), cleaned up
> a couple miscellaneous minor issues, added a LazyMap object for
> pipelining, and added a benchmarks folder (in the Github source tree)
> with at least one benchmark for each of the parallelism types (parallel
> foreach, map, reduce, task-based, pipelining). This is an official
> request for review of this module for inclusion in Phobos.
>
> I didn't include any benchmark results on the wiki yet, because so far
> I've only had a chance to run them on a dual core I have at home.
> They're also admittedly slightly tuned to my hardware, so the results
> would be biased, but all seem to provide at least close to linear
> speedups. Others may feel free to post their benchmark results to the wiki.
>
> One last note: Due to Bug 5612
> (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5612), the benchmarks
> don't work on 64-bit because core.cpuid won't realize that your CPU is
> multicore. There are two ways around this. One is to use 32-bit mode.
> The other is to change the benchmark files to manually set the number of
> cores by setting the defaultPoolThreads property.

Who'd like to be review manager? That entails putting together a 
schedule, tally votes, summarize discussions, and such.

Andrei