the Disruptor framework vs The Complexities of Concurrency

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 7 December 2012 at 09:03:58 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Friday, 7 December 2012 at 09:00:48 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>>
>>> [Andrei's comment ] Cross-pollination is a good thing indeed.
>>
>> I came across this while searching the programme of the 
>> conference that Walter is attending in Australia.
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>>
>> This gentleman, Martin Thompson
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>> http://www.yowconference.com.au/general/details.html?speakerId=2962
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>>
>> The main idea, is in this paper (11 pages, pdf):
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>> http://disruptor.googlecode.com/files/Disruptor-1.0.pdf
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>>
>> and here is a review of the architecure by Martin Fowler:
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>> http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
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>>
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>> My questions are:
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>> 1.  Is this pattern worth porting to the standard library ?
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>> 2.  Is this pattern a replacement for the 'Complexity of 
>> Concurrency' ?
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>>
>> cheers
>> Nick B
>
> You can find few presentation from LMAX guys on InfoQ. Pretty 
> neat stuff if you ask me. I think someone already worked on 
> Disruptor-like project in D.
> I would not like to have the whole thing in Phobos, just some 
> "basic blocks".

Actually, this is what should be behind message passing in phobos 
IMO. Much better than what we currently have.

I wanted to do that at the time, but it wasn't possible without 
asm. You'll find post about that if you dig deep engough in that 
newsgroup.