We've had a meeting to discuss splitting up druntime a bit, although we got slightly off track during it.
As part of it, it was suggested by Steven that instead of sharding druntime, we should shard phobos, so here is my proposal.
I proposed this many many months ago, right back at the start of PhobosV3 work that we "shard" Phobos, of course back then I didn't call it as such.
The reason we did not adopt this earlier is because of some insistence from Walter for PhobosV3 must be import only, which I unsurprisingly have been against this entire time; although he has now accepted that this will not necessarily be possible.
The idea is simple:
- You have a root package, this has been decided to be
phobos
. - A sub package below that
phobos.XYZ
would be a "shard". - A shard may be mapped to a binary, or it could be import only.
- Each shard would be considered independent of the others, however it may declare a dependency on another.
- No module can exist outside of a shard.
As a proposal it is simple to map a module to its binary.
It scales as PhobosV3 grows, with each independent shard allowed to do its own thing that it requires with clear dependencies.
We do not need to worry about things like event loops design work right now, but it does allow us to go: its a dependency of sockets therefore we can't do it right now.
This too was a concern of Walter's that Adam Wilson was taking on too much.