reddit discussion about Go turns to D again

[Robert Clipsham]

On 15/05/2011 17:04, dsimcha wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 11:41 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> Automatically using a parallel algorithm if it's likely to improve
>> speed? Awesome. I assume that std.parallelism sets up a thread pool upon
>> program start so that you don't have the overhead of spawning threads
>> when you use a parallel algorithm for the first time?
>
> No, it does so lazily. It seemed silly to me to do this eagerly when it
> might never be used. If you want to make it eager all you have to do is
> reference the taskPool property in the first line of main().

Fair enough, I guess that makes more sense. But surely if you import 
std.parallelism then you plan on using it? In which case initialization 
in a static this() would probably be a good idea? (Although I guess that 
means you can't customize the number of worker threads, in the case 
where it can't automatically be detected for whatever reason?)

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Robert
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