On 19-ott-10, at 19:17, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/19/10 11:07 CDT, FeepingCreature wrote:
On 19.10.2010 13:33, Stephan wrote:
BUT it wont work like that. AFTER i stopped all other threads some
strange behavior of druntime makes every creation of an
InternetAddress instance (internally trying to resolve host)
impossible (throws an exception). Additionally even if the Internet
Addresses were created upfront the TcpSockets wont connect but
throw.
Terminating threads has always been iffy in D.
Terminating threads has always been iffy in all languages that use
native threads. I've discussed with Sean a couple of times about
ways to define a little protocol and API for orderly thread
termination. We need something like a callback mechanism -
atShutdown().
As feep wrote using thread pools is often better.
With D1/tango one can use blip (whose release is hopefully just a few
days away) it becomes very nice to do.
Unfortunately this is not for Stephan, as most likely it will not work
on windows, because I used and developed it only on
mac/linux, and windows will require some porting.
Anyway checking several addresses in parallel becomes simply:
import blip.parallel.smp.PLoopHelpers;
import blip.io.Socket;
//...
foreach(addr;pLoopArray(adressesToCheck){
auto s=BasicSocket(addr,"80");
// do stuff
}
and this will use optimally all processors of your computer, and will
use libev to never block waiting for input...
Also making a server is not so difficult as shown by
http://github.com/fawzi/blip/blob/master/tests/EchoServer.d
the checking operation can spawn new tasks without problems.
Fawzi
