reddit discussion about Go turns to D again

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 05/15/2011 07:11 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 8:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The function signatures would be identical underlying the fact that
>> their actual semantics are identical.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Not so sure. For parallel computation, you'd probably want to have some
> additional, though optional, configurability for things like work unit
> size.

Sure. Those are not per call call though. std.algorithm offers a ton of 
functions. The cleanest way to expose parallel equivalents is as 
functions with identical signatures in a different module. It's very 
much in the spirit of D.

We should take a look at Gnu parallel. 
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/parallel_mode.html, which 
does the same (and I think they made the right decision).


Andrei