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[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 15:19:51 UTC, Chris wrote:

> I want to stop (and abort) the worker as soon as new input 
> arrives. However, while executing the function that contains 
> the foreach-loop the worker thread doesn't listen, because it's 
> busy, of course.

I think this is a matter of architecture. If you want to use 
message-passing and you want the worker to react quickly to new 
events, this means it needs to check for new messages (via 
receiveTimeout) often enough, there's no way around it.