We're currently using a TMChan to broadcast from a single producer thread to many consumer threads. This works well! However, we're seeing issues with a fast producer and/or a slow consumer, with the channel growing unbounded. Fortunately, our producer-consumer communication is time-sensitive and tolerant of loss: we're ok with the producer always writing at the expense of dropping communication to a slow consumer.

A TMBChan provides a bounded channel (but no means to dupe/broadcast) where a writer will block once the channel fills up. In our use case, we'd like to continue writing to the channel but dropping off the end of the channel. Clojure's core-async module has some related concepts, in particular the notion of a sliding buffer that drops the oldest elements once full. Has anyone encountered something similar in working with channels and/or have any solutions? Thanks!

Mark