Lock-Free Actor-Based Flow Programming in D2 for GSOC2011?
David Nadlinger
see at klickverbot.at
Thu Jul 7 14:55:03 PDT 2011
On 7/7/11 11:47 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from eris (jvburnes at gmail.com)'s article
>> Walter et al...
>> I'm interested in finishing my proof-of-concept multi-core actor/flow-based
>> programming system and I'd like to do it for D2. I've already implemented a
>> .9 version in D1 and would like to leverage the additional features and
>> concurrency system in D2.
>> I'm currently tweaking it for lock-free, multi-core, reactor-based
>> environment. The lock-free intercore message FIFOs are currently running
>> around 50 MT (mega transfers) a second.
>> Is it too late?
>> eris
>
> Can you please explain what this brings to the table beyond what's currently
> available in std.concurrency and std.parallelism? I'm very curious.
Yes, it would be great if you could elaborate a bit on the (high-level)
design of your library – actor-based programing has become one my top
interests lately.
David
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