std.concurrency.setMaxMailboxSize

[rikki cattermole]

On 11/10/2017 12:43 PM, RazvanN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 11:26:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 11/10/2017 12:09 PM, RazvanN wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have seen that the concurrency api has this method specified in 
>>> $title [1] and I was wondering what is the use of it? Enabling 
>>> threads to modify the message box of other threads doesn't seem to be 
>>> a good idea and I can't think of any real use case.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> RazvanN
>>>
>>> [1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_concurrency.html#.setMaxMailboxSize
>>
>> Main controlling thread setting child threads?
>>
>> Otherwise I don't remember the last time it was mentioned, so I'd say 
>> leave it be :)
> 
> Shouldn't the thread be in charge of its mailbox size? Otherwise, main 
> can pass the max size in the constructor.

Callee, versus caller. Just depends how you're thinking of the 
responsibility. You can make arguments either way.