• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> May 28 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Denis Koroskin:
 I believe he is talking about AST macros that are postponed until D3 because
current focus has shifted to concurrency.<


I think shifting to concurrent programming is now the right choice, all other
modern languages do the same, because people have more and more cores sleeping
in their computers.

But data-parallelism too needs more care/focus in D (I have discussed about it
diffusely when I have shown Chapel language, for example, and elsewhere).
So far Bartosz has not discussed enough about this very large (and important
for D future users) topic. Those things are also much more easy to understand
and use for me (and I think for other people too).
Thead/Actor/Agent/etc parallelism alone is NOT going to be enough for the
numeric computing community (and my numeric needs too).
Some support for data-parallelism is currently probably more important than
macros for D2.

Bye,
bearophile