std.parallelism changes done

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 25.03.2011 15:40, schrieb dsimcha:
> On 3/25/2011 5:42 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> Am 25.03.2011 10:33, schrieb Sönke Ludwig:
>>> yadda-yadda
>> >
>>
>> Apart from all this - I just want to make this a known problem, what you
>> (or maybe Andrei for std.concurrency) decide is up to you and I'm fine
>> with any outcome for my personal stuff because I do not have such a
>> complex system apart from work (C++).
>
> You've done a good job of explaining a complex problem. I appreciate it.
> I think we should make this a long-term todo, like Michael Fortin's
> suggestion that std.concurrency should be able to create tasks or
> std.parallelism should handle message passing. You should probably file
> a Bugzilla enhancement request saying Phobos should support thread
> caching, so that this proposal doesn't get lost.
>
> Your proposal is feasible and solves an important problem. On the other
> hand, the design and implementation details are still vague and would
> require substantial discussion. The feature is tangential to the purpose
> of std.parallelism and clearly crosses the line into general case
> concurrency.
>
> Bottom line: This proposal should not hold up the vote and adoption of
> std.parallelism, but it should not be discarded permanently either.
>

Agreed