More synchronized ideas

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 05:14:36 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote:
> On Monday, 4 June 2012 at 11:17:45 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> After trying to make sense of the thread "synchronized 
>> (this[.classinfo]) in druntime and phobos", I had to write my 
>> opinion on all this somewhere that wouldn't be instantly lost 
>> in a bazilion of posts. It turned out into something quite 
>> elaborate.
>>
>> <http://michelf.com/weblog/2012/mutex-synchonization-in-d/>
>
> This encourages the bad practice (IMO) of shared data. Only a 
> single thread should have the dictionary, with an AddWordMsg 
> struct and a ConfirmWordMsg struct.
>
> Using a message passing approach, the client thread sends an 
> AddWordMsg and continues while the word is added concurrently, 
> making it more efficient.
>
> My non-expert opinion,
> NMS

Though on the flip side, part of the D ideology is not 
restricting the programmer to a single paradigm. So maybe I like 
the idea :)

Data sharing should still be discouraged.

NMS