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digitalmars.D - Condition Variables, third race

reply Tommie Gannert <tomime gannert.se> writes:
Hi!

Time to check out D again...

I saw Graham St Jack's post in February about condition variables
(http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/34392.html),
and I just want to give the reason it never got into D/Phobos.

My first question about CVs is in a post from early December. I coded 
the solution linked to in the February post in mid-December. However,
the reason it never got any further was:

  1) I have no idea what the proper way of submitting patches are.
  2) Walter actually answered; but only with "I'm not using it, so I
     don't know if it's correct"
  3) David Friedman told me he would test it, but I never heard from him.
  4) No one else seemed interested.

It is still my (and now it seems, Graham's) highest belief that D won't 
be a major language until we have something comparable to Java's 
excellent built-in threading support.

/Tommie Gannert
Jul 25 2006
parent Graham St Jack <grahams acres.com.au> writes:
Tommie Gannert wrote:

 Hi!
 
 Time to check out D again...
 
 I saw Graham St Jack's post in February about condition variables
 (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/34392.html),
 and I just want to give the reason it never got into D/Phobos.
 
 My first question about CVs is in a post from early December. I coded
 the solution linked to in the February post in mid-December. However,
 the reason it never got any further was:
 
  1) I have no idea what the proper way of submitting patches are.
  2) Walter actually answered; but only with "I'm not using it, so I
     don't know if it's correct"
  3) David Friedman told me he would test it, but I never heard from him.
  4) No one else seemed interested.
 
 It is still my (and now it seems, Graham's) highest belief that D won't
 be a major language until we have something comparable to Java's
 excellent built-in threading support.
 
 /Tommie Gannert


I second that motion!

Something should be done before version 1.0, even if it is just an
extension to Phobos to add a Condition class - but a language extension
would be so much nicer because the compiler could do error-checking.

Isn't there anyone out there using threads seriously? What do you use
for conditions? What do you think should be done, if anything?
Aug 02 2006