review of std.parallelism

[Simen kjaeraas]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:40:08 +0100, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 3/18/2011 11:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 1. Library proper:
>>
>> * "In the case of non-random access ranges, parallel foreach is still
>> usable but buffers lazily to an array..." Wouldn't strided processing
>> help? If e.g. 4 threads the first works on 0, 4, 8, ... second works on
>> 1, 5, 9, ... and so on.
>
> You can have this if you want, by setting the work unit size to 1.  
> Setting it to a larger size just causes more elements to be buffered,  
> which may be more efficient in some cases.

Please add an example showing that, too. Sure, the documentation says
that's what's being done, but an example would show it more clearly.


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Simen