On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 06:32:32 UTC, logicchains wrote:
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 05:58:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
We already have actor-style via std.concurrency. We also have
fork-join parallelism via std.parallel. What we need is a
library for CSP.
The actor-style via std.concurrency is only between
'heavyweight' threads though, no? Even if lightweight threads
may be overhyped, part of the appeal of Go and Erlang is that
one can spawn tens of thousands of threads and it 'just works'.
It allows the server model of 'one green thread/actor per
client', which has a certain appeal in its simplicity. Akka
similarly uses its own lightweight threads, not heavyweight JVM
threads.
As Sean wrote, please check [1] or if you need it right now, Vibe
can offer what you need today...
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Paolo
[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1910
