[dmd-concurrency] priority messages

[Steve Schveighoffer]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com>
> > 2. "Must handle" messages that unblock any call to receive(). They may or may 
> not have priority. These may be derived from Exception.
> 
> I'd say those should be just "tasks". Sending one would execute that task in the 
> given thread, inside receive. Tasks could be shared delegates, functions, or 
> structs and objects defining opCall.

How does that scale to inter-process communication?  One thing that was nice about the message passing is it was seamless as far as inter-process since the messages could be serialized to be sent via IPC.  Executing arbitrary code can only be feasible within the same process.

-Steve