D2 status interim report ?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jun 22 16:08:53 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly wrote:
> There are decades of research in SMP and a raft of established practice...
> outside of the classic and frustrating explicit use of mutexes and the like.
> Why not agents, CSP, transactional memory, plain old parallel programming
> instructions as per languages like Cilk, etc?  This is one area where I don't
> think D should necessarily try to re-invent the wheel.

None of them has caught on and established itself as the right way to do 
parallel programming.



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