[dmd-concurrency] draft 1

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Sat Jan 9 13:00:40 PST 2010


How would you briefly describe your mental model of caches?

Andrei

Walter Bright wrote:
> As usually, it all depends. => As usual, it all depends
> 
> I'm not sure the discussion about parallel being replaced with serial 
> has much relevance to concurrency. Also, I never understood the problems 
> with concurrency until I constructed a mental model of how the memory 
> caches work. So I suggest less words about the parallel vs serial and 
> heat generation, and more about the memory caches.
> 
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> In the following days I'll send a number of chapter fragments for 
>> review. They are incomplete, but I expect the finished sections to be 
>> in reviewable form.
>>
>> I'd appreciate feedback (send it to this list). The first section is 
>> complete, the second is unfinished. Let me know!
>>
>>
>> Andrei
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