[dmd-concurrency] draft 5

[Robert Jacques]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:27:29 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<andrei at erdani.com> wrote:

> Robert Jacques wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:36:10 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
>> <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Kevin Bealer wrote:
>>>> So the caller calls setMaxMailboxSize with a callee's Tid.  Then that  
>>>> caller will not send messages unless the callee's mailbox is smaller  
>>>> than that amount?
>>>>  Will all callers obey the limit, or should they each set their own  
>>>> limit?  If the latter, then the design is as I thought.
>>>
>>> Each thread has a mailbox. That mailbox has a capacity. That capacity  
>>> can be set from any thread. It's that simple.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>  Bike shed but, what about: tid.capacity = N; ?
>
> Yah but sometimes one needs to also set the contingency action  
> atomically.
>
> Andrei

I was actually think capacity would be a property and therefore support  
atomicity.