"Spawn as many thousand threads as you like" and D

[Bienlein via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 17:13:07 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:

>> The Tid handling is currently a little different, but apart 
>> from that it
>> should work like this:
>>
>>     import vibe.core.core;
>>     import vibe.core.concurrency;
>>
>>     void spawnedFunc(Tid tid)
>>     {
>>         receive(
>>           (int i) { writeln("Received the number ", i); }
>>         );
>>     }
>>
>>     // run it as a fiber in the same thread
>>     // note: runTask only takes a delegate to make runTask({ 
>> ... })
>>     // work without an ambiguity error
>>     auto tid = runTask(toDelegate(&spawnedFunc), 
>> Task.getThis());
>>
>>     // or run it in the thread pool instead
>>     runWorkerTask(&spawnedFunc, Task.getThis());
>>
>> Having said that, I'll just add a "thisTid" property to
>> vibe.core.concurrency to make that part API compatible. I'd 
>> also add a
>> "spawn" alias, but the question is if that should point to 
>> runTask or
>> rather to runWorkerTask.
>
>
> BTW, a runnable example can be found here:
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/master/examples/message/source/app.d

Thanks for the quick answer. I'll give it a try ;-).