[phobos] State of std.parallelism unit tests

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Jun 3 00:05:33 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-02 23:52, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-02 06:30, David Simcha wrote:
> > Thanks.  A second look with fresher eyes revealed a subtle but serious
> > bug in the ResubmittingTasks base mixin (which affects parallel foreach,
> > map and amap) and a relatively minor corner-case bug in reduce().  Both
> > were introduced after the 2.053 release as a result of over-aggressive
> > optimizations.  I've checked in fixes for these.  I'm not sure whether
> > they're the root cause of the issues you're seeing, though.  If it's not
> > too much work, please try to reproduce your bugs again.
> 
> Well, I have yet to see the failure again. Unfortunately, that doesn't
> guarantee anything given the intermittent nature of the failure, but I
> think that there's a good chance that it's been fixed. I'll post about it
> if it happens again, but I think that for the moment, we can assume that
> it's been fixed.

I take that back. It just happened again. The std.parallelism tests 
segfaulted.

- Jonathan M Davis


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