Cilk/Cilk++

[bearophile]

Sean Kelly:
> Yeah, I and I believe others have suggested Cilk as one of the languages 
> worth investigating as a model for built-in parallel programming 
> features in D.  But for whatever reason no one has seemed terribly 
> interested.

Cilk is probably not perfect (it seems not easy to mix multithreading and such parallel computations), but parallel programming is a quite complex matter, and there's little hope in re-inventing too much good things. Cilk behind has years of theoretical study, a C++ implementation (Cilk++) that I think you can buy (or you will be able to buy), so it's already solid enough, and even a my limited brain seems able to understand enough how how to use it (and it has some other advantages, like if you remove the cilk statements you objtain working C code. The resulting code looks clean enough, even if you have to add some recursivity where where's none, etc), so it may be better this than something invented ex-novo, for D.

Bye,
bearophile