== Quote from jfd (j...@nospam.com)'s article > Any thoughts on parallel programming. I was looking at something about Chapel > and X10 languages etc. for parallelism, and it looks interesting. I know that > it is still an area of active research, and it is not yet (far from?) done, > but anyone have thoughts on this as future direction? Thank you.
Well, there's my std.parallelism library, which is in review for inclusion in Phobos. (http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/std_parallelism.html, http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/parallelFuture/std_parallelism.d) One unfortunate thing about it is that it doesn't use (and actually bypasses) D's thread isolation system and allows unchecked sharing. I couldn't think of any way to create a pedal-to-metal parallelism library that was simultaneously useful, safe and worked with the language as-is, and I wanted something that worked **now**, not next year or in D3 or whatever, so I decided to omit safety. Given that the library is in review, now would be the perfect time to offer any suggestions on how it can be improved.
