[phobos] Parallelism in Phobos

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Sun Jan 2 14:55:27 PST 2011


On 9/10/10 1:29 PM, David Simcha wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com
> <mailto:andrei at erdani.com>> wrote:
>
>     The latter. Anyway, my vetoing abilities are largely overrated.
>
>     Andrei
>
>
> Yeah, it's just that I really want to make sure this lib isn't too
> narrowly tailored to scientific computing cases, especially in easily
> fixable ways.  I want at least the high level design reviewed by you and
> Sean before I commit it, to make sure that it will be useful to people
> besides me, Lars Kyllingstad and Rob Jacques (the three scientific
> computing people involved with D, all of whom seem to like this
> library).  I have yet to really have feedback from anyone anywhere about
> it besides scientific computing people.

I believe that fork-join parallelism can be of much more general 
interest once packaged in an accessible format. So I'm interested in 
following David's work on std.parallelism through review and acceptance 
into Phobos.

Andrei


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