retard wrote:
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:32:19 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Michal Minich wrote:
Will the currently-being-designed message-passing concurrency be
supported between OS processes? Or only OS threads supported is
planned? Others may be probably interested in: light-weight threads,
cooperative concurrency and communication through network? If the
implementation is not planned for initial release, is it planned for
foreseeable future?
Thank you for answer.
Right now we don't have time to focus on more than inter-thread
communication. Sean and I had a pow-wow last week and decided we don't
have the resources to address more than that. But definitely the design
has an eye on future extensibility, of which inter-process communication
is an obvious extension.
Andrei
I haven't seen a single mention of what kind of algoritms can be solved
efficiently with this framework. Is it good for parallel algorithms like
parallel matrix multiplication, merge sort, producer/consumer problems,
serving web pages, rendering fractals, blitting images, parallel parsing,
handling RPC or GUIs?
Must mean you haven't looked. Message passing is a well-understood paradigm.
Andrei
