Multithreaded I/O in the DMD compiler (DDJ article by Walter)

[BCS]

Hello Daniel,

> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Multithreade
> d-I-O.html&Itemid=29
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> P.S.  "It really seems barbaric in our digital age that we all have
> motors and levers and gears and spinning things in our boxes."  Those
> damned spinning things!
> 

Some sort of fixed size thread pool might work better than thread-per-file 
after the files are loaded as the overhead of threads isn't going to do you 
any good if you have many more threads than you have cores