[phobos] Any reason we're not ready for a release?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/4/2011 9:24 PM, David Simcha wrote:
> On 5/4/2011 11:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It's past time.
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> I'd really like to get that #$(&@$ parallelism bug solved.  I don't know what 
> to do about it because it *seems* to only occur under a ridiculously narrow 
> set of circumstances but until I figure out for sure what's going on I won't 
> be fully confident that it's not some horrible concurrency bug.  OTOH, I have 
> no estimate right now of how much longer that's going to take.  My latest 
> thing to note is that sometimes the stack pointer, of all things, is somehow 
> getting overwritten with the value of TaskStatus.done.  I have absolutely no 
> clue how.  I'm starting to feel the same way about this bug that I usually 
> feel about the biology problems I try to solve for my thesis research:  The 
> harder I look, the more confused I get.

I feel your pain on that, I've been through that mill many times. Sometimes it 
helps to set it down for a moment. Worst case, we release with a buggy 
std.parallelism. It's not breaking existing code because it's new.

>
> Also, I don't think the auto tester indicates we're ready for a release quite 
> yet.  It's been ICEing on the std.concurrency unittests.

Sigh.
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