[phobos] Parallelism support in D

[David Simcha]

Fawzi,

In general, do you think that std.parallelism is missing anything that is
within its scope as a parallelism module and widely useful enough to the
non-HPC guru crowd to warrant inclusion in Phobos?

--Dave

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi at gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 19-nov-10, at 08:23, Russel Winder wrote:
>
>  Fawzi, David,
>>
>> At the risk of appearing blatantly uninformed, can I ask whether there
>> is any relationship between Fawzi's Blip and David's std.parallelism?
>>
>
> not directly, I think I work on blip since a longer time, David did
> implement the first Fibers in tango (with Sean)which I use, but I think that
> worked only recently on std.parallelism.
> As far as I know he did not explicitly look at blip for inspiration, but he
> should say :)
> I think that std.parallelism is simpler in the sense that is "just"
> parallel loops, and not a numa aware work stealing framework that tries to
> support all sorts of parallel SMP programming.
>
> Fawzi
>
>
>  --
>> Russel.
>>
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