[dmd-concurrency] Thread termination protocol (shutdown protocol evolved)

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2010-01-21 à 13:36, Robert Jacques a écrit :

> Looks okay at first glance. To reduce namespace pollution: terminate(tid) -> tid.terminate. Also, overloading spawn and spawnOwned should also be considered.

Overloading could work. The advantage of a different name though is that it's easier to spot while reading the code that you're giving ownership to a different thread.


> To clarify, the exception/terminate message passing are passed with the same priority as normal messages, so they only get re-thrown after prior messages are sent / received / etc. Correct?

That was the idea, yes.

I think the simplest case (sequential) should be the default. That said, it might be useful to add a policy to be able to receive messages by priority, and not just exception messages. But it's probably a little premature right now.

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