On Sat, 09 May 2015 21:32:42 -0400, Mike wrote:
it looks like what you are trying to implement is what `synchronized`
already provides:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/concurrency_shared.html#ix_concurrency_shared.synchronized
Mike
Yes, but synchronized uses a mutex. Spin locks can perform b
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 20:17:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
On Sat, 09 May 2015 15:38:05 -0400, Mike wrote:
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
Also, I wasn't able to find any thorough documentation on
shared, so if someone has a link, that would be helpful.
Here are a fe
On Sat, 09 May 2015 15:59:57 -0400, tcak wrote:
If a variable/class/struct etc is not shared, for variables and struct,
you find their initial value. For class, you get null.
For first timers (I started using shared keyword more than 2 years ago),
do not forget that: a shared method is all
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 19:59:58 UTC, tcak wrote:
Stupidly, shared variables' value cannot be increased/decreased
directly. Compiler says it is deprecated, and tells me to use
core.atomic.atomicop. You will see this as well.
How's that stupid? Sounds like the compiler is doing its job
guar
On Sat, 09 May 2015 15:38:05 -0400, Mike wrote:
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
Also, I wasn't able to find any thorough documentation on shared, so if
someone has a link, that would be helpful.
Here are a few interesting links:
Iain Buclaw (lead developer for GD
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
What does 'shared' do to member variables?
Makes them `shared`. :P
It makes sense to me to put it on a global variable, but what
sense does it make putting it on a member of a class?
Globals are not the only way to pass data to other t
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
What does 'shared' do to member variables?
It makes sense to me to put it on a global variable, but what
sense does it make putting it on a member of a class? What
happens if you try to access a member of a class/struct
instance from ano
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
Also, I wasn't able to find any thorough documentation on
shared, so if someone has a link, that would be helpful.
Here are a few interesting links:
Iain Buclaw (lead developer for GDC) with his interpretation:
http://forum.dlang.org/p
What does 'shared' do to member variables?
It makes sense to me to put it on a global variable, but what sense does
it make putting it on a member of a class? What happens if you try to
access a member of a class/struct instance from another thread that is not
marked 'shared'?
Also, I was
