Concurrent Thread Safe List?

Gan via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 4 18:33:35 PST 2015


On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 02:13:23 UTC, Gan wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 22:14:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli 
> wrote:
>> On 02/04/2015 12:10 PM, Gan wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a non-blocking way of a thread pushing 
>>> objects into a
>>> list and another thread able to pull objects from the same 
>>> list. Thread
>>> 1 pushes objects onto the list, Thread 2 pulls the oldest 
>>> objects off
>>> the list.
>>>
>>> Does D language have something like that?
>>
>> The std.concurrency module does exactly that:
>>
>>  http://dlang.org/phobos/std_concurrency.html
>>
>> And something I wrote:
>>
>>  http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/concurrency.html
>>
>> Ali
>
> Cool article. First half of the article I was thinking, this 
> isn't what I want. Then in the second half where you got into 
> the mailbox analogy, that's exactly what I want.
>
> Thanks.

If I want a non blocking receive call, would I do bool 
receiveTimeout(T...)(Duration duration, T ops); with a duration 
of 0?


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