[phobos] std.parallelism: Request for review/comment

[David Simcha]

  This is basically the latest incarnation of ParallelFuture, but with 
improved documentation.  A lot has changed, though, since the first 
incarnation.  Here are some of the more important changes:

1.  Parallel map and reduce.
2.  Merge Task and Future.
3.  foreach(i, elem; pool.parallel(range)) now works.
4.  ref foreach now works even for non-random access ranges.  (It's 
implemented by incrementally copying pointers into an array.)
5.  Worker-local storage.

On 8/29/2010 4:42 PM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> I have tried it before, and based on that (unless you have made
> substantial changes since it's first incarnation as 'parallelfuture') I
> say it's good to go.
>
> I only have two suggestions:
>
>   1. Can we call it std.parallel instead?
>
>   2. IMO, the killer feature of the module is the parallel foreach.
> Therefore, I think parallel() should be moved to the top of the module,
> so it's the first thing one sees upon reading the documentation.
>
> -Lars
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 13:56 -0400, David Simcha wrote:
>> Since there seems to be interest in my parallelfuture library becoming
>> std.parallelism even if it uses unchecked implicit sharing, I've cleaned
>> up the code, removed anything that could possibly be construed as having
>> been borrowed from Tango (which previously was just a few tiny,
>> unoriginal ASM snippets) and improved the documentation.  I'm requesting
>> review of it.  The code is available at:
>>
>> http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/parallelFuture/std_parallelism.d
>>
>> A draft of how the documentation would look is available at:
>>
>> http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/std_parallelism.html
>>
>> BTW, how are we working the review process for new modules?  Do they get
>> reviewed here first, then in the NG, should they be posted directly to
>> the NG, or what?
>>
>> --Dave
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