Unused druntime code: Barrier, ReadWriteMutex, Condition
Denis Feklushkin
feklushkin.denis at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 08:15:29 UTC 2026
On Monday, 15 June 2026 at 23:50:01 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew
Cattermole wrote:
>> The attempt to use standard Semaphore and Mutex in ondition
>> implementation failed because the current Condition semantics
>> requires @nogc, but Mutex and Semaphore are classes and
>> std.typecons.scoped isn't available in druntime.
>
> The implementation can be extracted into a package struct.
This leads to duplication of code what already available in
`std.typecons.scoped`
> Nothing needs to break to fix this.
Why you use "break" to describe this?
I do not propose break anything: I propose to add `public import`
from `std.concurrency.rwmutex` (etc) into `core.sync.rwmutex`
module with appropriate deprecation messages.
>> This is another argument for moving this code to Phobos
>
> There is no valid argument here.
>
> To move it requires breaking user code, and that is not an
> option.
Related - "Very telling quote":
https://forum.dlang.org/post/lkfdcbhqjdphvoaekpxq@forum.dlang.org
(Very telling quote)
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