Concurrency in the D Programming Language: free chapter

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Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

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> Andrei

Wonderful Andrei.

Great information and a fine gift.  Must buy book.  

BTW: While you were writing that chapter I was busy writing a multi-core implementation of my Dendrite flow-based programming system for D/Tango which is based on a high-performance, lock-free message passing design.  In fact, I'm still writing it :-)  Initial tests indicate core-to-core (inter-thread) message passing is running at around 20 million messages / second, lock-free with no thread de-scheduling.  That's probably best case, YMMV etc.  Lock-free FIFO is based on an optimized, batching, cache-coherent algorithm invented by someone for content sniffing pipelines.

I guess it's like anything on the Internet.  If it's worth doing, at least three people are thinking about it and 2 people are doing it.