Hello Tomasz, Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 12:49:04 PM, you wrote: TZ> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:00:46PM +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
One particular thing that bugs me is that I cannot really use TChan for thread mailboxes. I don't think I experienced this problem with Erlang but using a TChan with a logger thread quickly overwhelms the logger and fills the TChan and a lot (hundreds? thousands) of other threads are logging to it.
TZ> I wonder what Erlang does to solve this problem? Perhaps we should track TZ> the number of unprocessed messages in TChans and the bigger it is TZ> the more favor consumers over producers. even best - always prefer consumer to producer :) may be have two lists - one of threads waiting to consume, and one of threads waiting to produce? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com