On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 12:13:07 UTC, logicchains wrote:
On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 11:23:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I guess D could be said to have actors already using spawn and
the
message queue.
In std.concurrency, the documentation states that: "Right now,
only in-process threads are supported and referenced by a more
specialized handle called a Tid. It is effectively a subclass
of Cid, with additional features specific to in-process
messaging". Is there any timeline on when out-process threads
will be supported? I think that would bring D closer to being
able to achieve Erlang style concurrency.
There's already a pull request in place to support green threads.
If you mean IPC, we really need serialization first, and it would
be nice to have a decent network API as well. But I've been
meaning to sort out a prototype anyway. Tid will remain the
reference to a thread regardless of which process it lives in,
and I'll be adding a Node type.
