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[Adam Conner-Sax]

Thanks!

It's OSX, by the way.

So it's clear, I understand that message passing is preferred and I can see how to
do that (kind of!) but I want to compare the performance to other queue
implementations so I can see that message passing is faster or comparable.

Originally, I was just trying to compare (avg and worst case latency) Locking and
LockFree queues (and learn the basics of using CAS) but then I wanted to add
message passing to the list to compare.  Combining them all in one test harness is
proving challenging.

That the main thread has a default mailbox makes sense and explains a lot.  Though
I doubt I know enough to comment usefully, creating a mailbox if "thisTid" is
called makes sense to me.

Thanks again.

Adam