reddit discussion about Go turns to D again

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 09:46 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Well, C++ already kind of has, thanks to Intel's TBB and Microsoft's PPL and 
> Agents libraries.

TBB is very good in terms of performance but it can be rather awkward to
use.  It is thought a great step forward for data parallelism is C++.

I have no experience of Microsoft stuff as I don't use their
compilers/libraries.

> Intel's Cilk you also provides interesting extensions to C and C++, and they 
> look pretty much
> like Go's ideas.

Cilk per se has lost its way a bit recently, and anyway was C focused.
Cilk++ is a commercial enterprise.  Intel have licenced it (Intel Cilk
Plus) as part of their "pay for" C++ development suite which includes
TBB and ABB.  I have downloaded the 1.3GB file but have yet to unpack
it. 

The idea of using asynchronous function call as the initiator of
concurrency/parallelism is fairly standard across the board these days.
Of course Cilk is still focusing on shared-memory systems. 

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