On 8/6/2011 12:32 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
I'd love to be able to send classes between processes, but first we need a good serialization/deserialization mechanism.
The more I think about it, the more I think that std.concurrency isn't quite the right interface for cluster parallelism. I'm thinking instead of doing something loosely based on, but not a translation of, boost::mpi. The following differences between std.concurrency and what makes sense for MPI bother me:
1. shared/immutable isn't needed when you're copying the data anyhow. 2. spawn() is taken care of by the MPI runtime. 3. std.concurrency doesn't support broadcasting.
