Does D support multithreading inherently?

[Sean Kelly]

Someone wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this has been asked before. I didn't know how to search (:noob).
> 
> Does D support multithreading inherently?

Sort of.  D currently supports multithreading via the Thread class in 
std.thread, and the keyword "synchronized."  There's also a "volatile" 
keyword, but it doesn't do what you'd expect and is really more useful 
for lock-free programming.  So at the moment, D is fairly well suited 
for general multithreaded programming but has little in the way of 
specialized concurrency support.

 > What is the concurrency mechanism used?

Threads wrapped in library code, for the most part.  There has been some 
talk on this forum of experimenting with additional concurrency support, 
but nothing solid yet.


Sean