[phobos] Parallelism in Phobos

[Sean Kelly]

On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:

> Well, I'm for the library. I haven't done much with concurrent
> programming, but it looks like it would be usable in more general
> cases. I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but here are some
> thoughts.
> 
> It doesn't make use of std.concurrency, would it make sense to build
> it off of message passing?

Possibly some of it, but portions of std.parallelism are to solve problems where message passing isn't ideal from a performance perspective.

> I believe that std.concurrency's interface is meant to scale up to
> clusters, would this be doable for std.parallelism?

It should be.  As long as the existing interface will allow things to expand in that direction then I think we're good.  I designed std.concurrency with inter-process messaging in mind, even though it hasn't been implemented yet.