On 16.04.2011 22:39, dsimcha wrote:
I'm reconsidering the naming of std.parallelism. The name is catchy,
but perhaps too general. std.parallelism currently targets SMP
parallelism. In the future it would be nice for Phobos to target SIMD
parallelism and distributed message passing parallelism, too. These
might belong in different modules. Then again, std.smp or
std.multicore or something just doesn't sound as catchy. SIMD would
probably just be array ops and stuff. Distributed message passing
would probably be absorbed by std.concurrency since the distinction
between concurrency and parallelism isn't as obvious at this level and
std.concurrency is already the home of message passing stuff. Please
comment.
I'm inclined to go with std.parallelism, the name is so cute :).
On the serious side of it, I think SIMDs really belong to compiler
internals and std.intrinsics.
And any message passing should most likely go into std.concurency, even
though that lives some scenarios somewhat on the edge of two (parallelism).
--
Dmitry Olshansky
