[phobos] [D-Programming-Language/phobos] 3cf671: Add std.parallelism.

[Brad Roberts]

On 4/27/2011 7:53 AM, David Simcha wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com <mailto:braddr at puremagic.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It's a dual core amd:
> 
>     vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>     cpu family      : 15
>     model           : 75
>     model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
>     stepping        : 2
>     cpu MHz         : 1000.000
>     cache size      : 512 KB
>     flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht
>     syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic
>     cr8_legacy
> 
>     Actually, showing up on one box but not another is strong evidence of a concurrency bug in my experience.  Different
>     cpu's at different speeds, with different speed memory and other side components change timings enough to expose bugs
>     that otherwise haven't occurred elsewhere.
> 
> 
> Also, is there a way I can trigger the auto tester to run a few more times w/o committing anything?  Everything passed
> on the latest run except Windows, which is broken for unrelated reasons, but I want to see whether I've solved the
> problem or the issue is non-deterministic and I just got lucky.  (On FreeBSD everything started working after a change
> that shouldn't have mattered, but my gut feeling is that the failure here was due to a codegen bug.)

It's the easiest way for anyone other than me right now.  A commit to any of the three key packages triggers a rebuild
of all of them on every platform.

I'll set up an account for you on the box tonight so you can login to it and test/debug directly.

Later,
Brad