std.parallelism equivalents for posix fork and multi-machine processing

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 20:28:02 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Is there value to having equivalents to the std.parallelism 
> approach that works with processes rather than threads, and 
> makes it easy to manage tasks over multiple machines?

I'm not sure if you're asking because of this thread, but see

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/tczkndtepnvppggzmews@forum.dlang.org#post-tczkndtepnvppggzmews:40forum.dlang.org

python outperforming D because it doesn't have to deal with 
synchronization headaches. I found D to be way faster when 
reimplemented with fork, but having to use the stdc API is 
ugly(IMO)