spir Wrote:

> (I have few exp in the paradigm, so don't believe me.)
> 
> It seems your problem is a typical case that cannot be safe as is. 
> Essentially, 
> IIUC, you want a shared set of data to be fed (more generally: mutated) from 
> a 
> thread, while another thread (here, the main one) processes bits of it. How 
> can 
> this be correct as is --except as you say if mutating operations were atomic?
> I think in such a case you /must/ have a communication protocal between both 
> tasks/threads. It is not due to language features (present ot not, this or 
> that 
> way) but to the problem itself. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Well I think that this is the model that goroutines lend them selves to. You 
have a producer input into a channel and a consumer on another thread/machine. 
To get such a behavior your don't need a language feature, but as of yet D does 
not have anything exactly comparable.

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