[dmd-concurrency] draft 3

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I agree, will look into it.

Andrei

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> As of draft 5, Benjamin's point below still has not been addressed.  I realized it again when I started perusing it.  I think it is a very valid point -- asyncSort, yeah it sorts data and throws it away.  Not a very compelling example.  It might segue well into the message passing section -- continue with the same example.
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> -Steve
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Benjamin Shropshire <benjamin at precisionsoftware.us>
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>> I'm not sure where your going with the asyncSort example. It's a good 
>> illustration for what it's showing, but what will the function /do/ withe the 
>> sorted data? Unless you can come up with a nice clean and elegant way to get it 
>> back to the main thread, I'd chose a different task (find-and-print for example) 
>> that the reader won't expect to return something. OTOH if you do have a nice 
>> clean and elegant conclusion, rock on!
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