Thread-Multiplexing for D

[qznc]

On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 13:36:41 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> The "thread-multiplexing" in Go is described here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sLKhJYD0Y_kqxDv3I3XMw/edit
>
> The sources are here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c?r=01acf1dbe91f673f6308248b8f45ec0564b1d751
>
> It should be possible to takes this approach from Go and bring 
> it
> to D. Just an idea ...

Is this different to task parallelism as implemented in 
std.parallelism [0]?

The downside of D is that the rest of system is not integrated. 
For example, if you do a blocking syscall then the threadpool is 
not increased to compensate for the blocked thread.

[0] http://dlang.org/phobos/std_parallelism.html