ASAP please. Dne 16. 3. 2014 5:10 "Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> D1's approach to multithreading was wanting. D2 executed a big departure > from that with the shared qualifier and the default-thread-local approach > to data. > > We think this is a win, but D2 inherited a lot of D1's thread-related > behavior by default, and some of the rules introduced by TDPL ( > http://goo.gl/9gtH0g) remained in the "I have a dream" stage. > > Fixing that has not gained focus until recently, when e.g. > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3067 has come about. > There is other more stringent control of shared members, e.g. > "synchronized" is all or none, "synchronized" only makes direct member > variables unshared, and more. > > This will statically break code. It will refuse to compile code that is > incorrect, but also plenty of code that is correct; the compiler will > demand extra guarantees from user code, be they in the form of casts and > stated assumptions. > > I believe this is a bridge we do need to cross. One question is how we go > about it: all at once, or gradually? > > > Andrei > >
