[dmd-concurrency] priority messages

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> Is there a planned hierarchy for Tid/Pid/etc. ?  Is it still going to
> be possible to abstract the commonalities?  I think this was an
> attractive proposition.

Yah. My hope is to gloss over much detail regarding Tid so we save 
ourselves flexibility in implementation later. Sean and I agreed it's 
not realistic to implement IPC soon so the book will only emphasize ITC 
and mention IPC as a future direction.

> One library I've used for building easy-to-use network protocols is
> .NET remoting, which essentially allows you to call methods on remote
> objects as if they were local objects.  To myself, I thought it might
> be cool if we could build such a library on top of D's message
> passing scheme.

That would be a great litmus test indeed.

Andrei