[Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

[dsimcha]

On 4/10/2011 8:28 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 10.04.2011 00:27, schrieb Torarin:
>> 2011/4/8 dsimcha<dsimcha at yahoo.com>:
>>> Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and
>>> parallelism for D's article contest.  It's not an official submission yet,
>>> but feedback would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/
>>>
>>
>> A very good article! And I like that you linked to other articles that
>> go into more detail on  relevant subjects. I wouldn't mind a couple
>> more examples.
>>
>> Torarin
>
> After all the language bikeshedding I'll add something on-topic to this
> thread ;)
>
> I agree with Torarin: It's a very good article, I like how further
> explanations are linked and I also wouldn't mind some more examples.
>
> Some additional notes:
>   * A link to the std.parallelism docs would make sense

Good idea.

>   * "This means that no data that is not either immutable or shared may
> be transitively reachable via pointers or references passed into a
> spawned function or passed as a message." is a strange sentence with
> those two negations in it.

Yeah, this could be worded a little better.  Will change.

>   * Maybe you could compare std.parallelism to OpenMP in terms of syntax
> and functionality? That would probably help all the people that are
> familiar with it.

A few others have asked for this, but honestly, I don't know much about 
OpenMP.  I've read a little about it but never actually used it before, 
so I don't think I could write a solid comparison.

>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel