• BizarreCake (9/9) Aug 08 2011 I wonder why there isn't any sleep method in std.concurrency.
• Jonathan M Davis (9/21) Aug 08 2011 It's not there, because it's in core.thread. We're not going to duplicat...

BizarreCake <bizarrecake gmail.com> writes:

I wonder why there isn't any sleep method in std.concurrency.
I know there is one in core.thread, but I try to avoid using
core modules.

Maybe a sleep method is just not needed in std.concurrency?

If I were to make a program that would constantly have about
60 working threads. Some kind of sleeping mechanism is a must
in my opinion.

Someone please answer! ^^
Thanks.

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Monday 08 August 2011 07:01:11 BizarreCake wrote:
 I wonder why there isn't any sleep method in std.concurrency.
 I know there is one in core.thread, but I try to avoid using
 core modules.
 
 Maybe a sleep method is just not needed in std.concurrency?
 
 If I were to make a program that would constantly have about
 60 working threads. Some kind of sleeping mechanism is a must
 in my opinion.
 
 Someone please answer! ^^
 Thanks.

It's not there, because it's in core.thread. We're not going to duplicate code 
just so that it's in std instead of core. If the functionality that you need 
is in core, then use core. I don't see any reason to avoid it beyond the fact 
that a large portion of it is C declarations which Phobos uses to implement 
nicer, D functions which are then what you'd use. But if it's D code, then 
there's no reason not to use it. It's there to be used, and it's not going to 
be duplicated in std.

- Jonathan M Davis