The "no gc" crowd

[Michel Fortin]

On 2013-10-10 17:34:47 +0000, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> said:

> On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> http://michelf.ca/blog/2012/mutex-synchonization-in-d/
> 
> Good article.  But why didn't you mention core.sync?  It has both a
> Mutex and a ReadWriteMutex (ie. shared_mutex).

Because that would have required a ton of explanations about why you 
need casts everywhere to remove shared, and I don't even know where to 
begin to explain shared semantics. Shared just doesn't make sense to me 
the way it works right now.

The examples in C++ are much clearer than anything I could have done in 
D2. I don't want to have to explain why I have to bypass the type 
system every time I need to access a variable. I'll add that I'm coding 
in C++ right now so it's much easier to come up with C++ examples.

That said, it might be a good idea to add a note at the end about 
core.sync in case someone wants to try that technique in D.

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Michel Fortin
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