I would like to be able to spawn a thread, which does a lot of work, and
then returns (in some way) the result of its computations to the main
thread. I would really like to avoid copying its results if possible.
Logically, what I would like is something like this:
class LotsOfData { ... }
void doStuff(LotsOfData d) { ... }
shared(LotsOfData[]) data;
void main()
{
spawn( &doWork );
while(true)
{
foreach (d; data)
doStuff(d);
}
}
void doWork()
{
LotsOfData d = new LotsOfData;
// lots of computation on d
data ~= d;
}
Essentially, the work that doWork does needs to be returned to the main
thread asynchronously, and obviously in a thread-safe manner.
What's the best way to do this? The above won't work because ~= isn't
atomic, so you can't do it on shared data.
