On 2012-01-19 21:58, Nathan M. Swan wrote:
I want to applaud Sean Kelly and everyone who worked on std.concurrency
for a great API, and wish that I could easily write Cocoa applications
with it.
I'm writing a screen recording program in Objective-C, and to make sure
each frame has an equal length, I have two threads: one that takes the
screenshot at certain intervals, the other that assembles it into a
quicktime movie. After writing an implementation of a thread-safe queue,
where the picture-taking thread adds and the assembling thread removes,
I realized the huge similarity between what I'd done and std.concurrency.
The std.concurrency module would have made hours of effort in ObjC take
five minutes in D. Well done!
I don't know if it's the same but doesn't Objective-C makes that quite
simple as well since Mac OS X 10.6 using grand central dispatch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
--
/Jacob Carlborg
