public MessageBox

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 00:30:51 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote:
> As I posted a while back, the concept of a variant message 
> queue is wonderful and powerful, and the implementation is 
> great. But the fact that you can't declare "auto mq = new 
> MessageQueue()" is a gaping whole in an otherwise A+ API.

Nice to hear that I'm not alone with that opinion – I hit the 
same problem when implementing a request log file writer for 
Thrift, which runs in a separate thread and communicates with the 
main thread via a message queue.

It works great and performed even better than a similar C++ 
version due to lower lock contention, but the user'd better not 
try to call receiveOnly!() from »his« thread…

David