reddit discussion about Go turns to D again

[Gilbert Dawson]

Russel Winder Wrote:

> 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. 

Lost its way? Like.. in which market segment? I come from application programming community and we are still transitioning from single threaded sequential programs to SIMD and servers with multiple backend processes + db locking. Is Google or Facebook using Cilk? Haven't even heard about 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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