My thoughts & experiences with D so far, as a novice D coder

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-03-27 16:34, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:

> - I find myself in a world of pain when I want to share data more
> complex than the basic data types (int, char, byte, etc) across threads.
> Seemingly the magic trick is to "cast(shared) foo" (or
> "cast(immutable)") when passing objects/references to another thread,
> then "cast(Foo)" back on the receiving end (as most classes/structs in
> the standard library refuse to let you call any methods when the object
> is shared). The examples in the source and TDPL are fairly limited on
> the issue, it mostly covers only those basic data types.

Try message passing and serialize the data you want to send.

Message passing: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_concurrency.html
Serialization: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange

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/Jacob Carlborg