Asynchronicity in D

[Max Klyga]

On 2011-03-31 19:26:45 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu said:

> On 3/31/11 6:35 AM, Max Klyga wrote:
>> snip
> 
> I think that would be a good contribution that would complement Jonas'. 
> You'll need to discuss cooperation with him and at best Jonas would 
> agree to become a mentor.

Jonas agreed to become a mentor if I make this proposal 
strong/interesting enough.
> 
> I've posted a couple of weeks earlier how I think that could work with 
> ranges: the range maintains the asynchronous state and has a queue of 
> already-available buffers received. The network traffic occurs in a 
> different thread; the range throws requests over the fence to libcurl 
> and libcurl throws buffers over the fence back to the range. The range 
> offers a seemingly synchronous interface:
> 
> foreach (line; byLineAsync("http://d-programming-language.org"))
> {
>     ... use line ...
> }
> 
> except that the processing and the fetching of data occur in distinct threads.

I thought about the same.
> 
> Server-side code such as network servers etc. would also be an 
> interesting topic. Let me know if you're versed in the likes of 
> libev(ent).

I have no experience with libev/libevent, but I see no problem working 
with either, after reading some exapmles or/and documentation.