Opportunities for D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/10/2014 8:13 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 06:32:32 UTC, logicchains wrote:
>> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 05:58:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> We already have actor-style via std.concurrency. We also have fork-join
>>> parallelism via std.parallel. What we need is a library for CSP.
>>
>> The actor-style via std.concurrency is only between 'heavyweight' threads
>> though, no? Even if lightweight threads may be overhyped, part of the appeal
>> of Go and Erlang is that one can spawn tens of thousands of threads and it
>> 'just works'. It allows the server model of 'one green thread/actor per
>> client', which has a certain appeal in its simplicity. Akka similarly uses its
>> own lightweight threads, not heavyweight JVM threads.
>
> No.  I've had an outstanding pull request to fix this for quite a while now.  I
> think there's a decent chance it will be in the next release.  To be fair, that
> pull request mostly provides the infrastructure for changing how concurrency is
> handled.  A fiber-based scheduler backed by a thread pool doesn't exist yet,
> though it shouldn't be hard to write (the big missing piece is having a dynamic
> thread pool).  I was going to try and knock one out while on the airplane in a
> few days.

Sean, it is awesome that you are taking charge of this. I can't think of anyone 
more perfect for the job!