[dmd-concurrency] draft 5

[Robert Jacques]

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; ?