Multitasking in D

Speaker: Ali Çehreli

Abstract: This talk will cover the solutions that the D programming language and its standard library provide for multitasking.

We will start with a short introduction to D, covering its features that are instrumental in multitasking and the ones that will appear code examples during the presentation.

We will then concentrate on the following specific topics:

• Parallelisms

• Message passing concurrency

• Data sharing concurrency

• Fibers

Ali Çehreli has been working as a C and C++ programmer with small and large networking companies in Silicon Valley since 1996, currently working at Riverbed. He is an organizer of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the ACCU and the DLang Silicon Valley Meetup groups. Ali is the author of the online book "Programming in D", which is both a D tutorial for programming novices and a D reference.