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

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Lutger wrote:
>>
>> Have you ever tried virtualbox? It has a seamless mode, which tears out
>> windows apps in the virtual instance and make them behave just as if you
>> started them under linux. It's very pleasant, you don't have to switch
>> anything anymore and just run those windows userthings next to your gnome /
>> kde applications.
>
> Nope, never tried it! I just have a bad experience with multiboot systems in
> the past, and have tended to avoid them.
>

VMs have nothing to do with multiboot.  I have Ubuntu in a Sun
Virtualbox on my desktop and it's wonderful.  It's fun to watch an OS
start in a window.  I can also share a folder across the boundary; the
clipboard works seamlessly; input grabbing is nearly seamless.  And
since I can share folders, I can do fun things like work on a DS
project in my favorite Windows code editor, make graphics for it in
CS2, compile it using GDC on the Linux side, and run it in an emulator
on the Windows side.  I have the best of both worlds without any need
to have multiple partitions or reboot.