On 2011-04-16 14:39:23 -0400, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> said:
I'm reconsidering the naming of std.parallelism. The name is catchy, but perhaps too general. std.parallelism currently targets SMP parallelism. In the future it would be nice for Phobos to target SIMD parallelism and distributed message passing parallelism, too. These might belong in different modules. Then again, std.smp or std.multicore or something just doesn't sound as catchy. SIMD would probably just be array ops and stuff. Distributed message passing would probably be absorbed by std.concurrency since the distinction between concurrency and parallelism isn't as obvious at this level and std.concurrency is already the home of message passing stuff. Please comment.
While "parallelism" might be too general, isn't it true that it's too specific at the same time? I mean, the module includes a concurrent task system, some sugar to parallelize loops using tasks (foreach, map, reduce), and an async buffer implementation also based on tasks. Of those, which are truly parallelism?
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