Documentation about concurrency and parallelism

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Sun Jul 24 05:05:26 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 22:47:38 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 20:56:07 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 20:46:24 UTC, eugene wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> could you,please, point out where can i find in the 
>>> "Documentation" sections info about concurrency and 
>>> parrallelism preferably with examples?
>>
>> i didn't find about it in "Language reference" and "Feature 
>> overview", but found in "Library reference"
>
> It's entirely a library feature, the compiler doesn't need to 
> know about it.

For clarification, the compiler does know about parallel and 
concurrent code, since threads cannot be implemented as a library 
[0]. In most cases though, you find all high-level stuff you need 
in the library.

[0] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf




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