On 11/12/2012 02:48 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2012-11-11 18:46:10 +0000, Alex Rønne Petersen <[email protected]> said:
Something needs to be done about shared. I don't know what, but the
current situation is -- and I'm really not exaggerating here --
laughable. I think we either need to just make it perfectly clear that
shared is for documentation purposes and nothing else, or, figure out
an alternative system to shared, because I don't see shared actually
being useful for real world work no matter what we do with it.
I feel like the concurrency aspect of D2 was rushed in the haste of
having it ready for TDPL. Shared, deadlock-prone synchronized classes[1]
as well as destructors running in any thread (thanks GC!) plus a couple
of other irritants makes the whole concurrency scheme completely flawed
if you ask me. D2 needs a near complete overhaul on the concurrency front.
I'm currently working on a big code base in C++. While I do miss D when
it comes to working with templates as well as for its compilation speed
and a few other things, I can't say I miss D much when it comes to
anything touching concurrency.
[1]: http://michelf.ca/blog/2012/mutex-synchonization-in-d/
I am always irritated by shared-by-default static variables.
