On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:47:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I hadn't answered as I do not have answers to the questions you
ask. My reason: people should not be doing their codes using
these low-level shared memory techniques. Data parallel things
should be using the std.parallelism module. Dataflow-style
things should be using spawn and channels – akin to the way you
do things in Go.
So to give you an answer I would go back a stage, forget
threads, mutexes, synchronized, etc. and ask what do you want
you workers to do? If they are to do something and return a
result then spawn and channel is exactly the right abstraction
to use. Think "farmer–worker", the farmer spawns the workers
and then collects their results. No shared memory anywyere – at
least not mutable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGs7JU7eM
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