Signals & Slots

[Sean Kelly]

Lutger wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
>> It would be nice to have some actual
>> evidence in this matter (either way, although I understand that complete
>> thread safety may be impossible to prove for an efficient solution).
>>
> 
> The following hack resulted in a deadlock on my machine. I also found 
> some access violations, this is perhaps a bug in sslot. A similar 
> program for std.signals also gave deadlocks.

Weird, I'd expect std.signals to work.  But then I just glanced at the 
implementation so perhaps it has a bug or two.  In theory, std.signals 
could work, but the implementation would have to be very carefully done 
(and lock-free as it is now).


Sean