Re: [Chicken-users] Another mailbox egg

[Kon Lovett]

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On Jul 7, 2006, at 2:12 AM, felix winkelmann wrote:

> On 7/5/06, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Dan wrote:
> >
> > > But why is this not a new *version* of mailbox.egg?
> >
> > Because Felix wanted to keep the mailbox.egg as is.
>
> Yes, I take full responsibility for this due to performance
> paranoia and gratuitous minimalism. Please don't be too
> annoyed by this.

After some reflection I think Felix is correct. At least until we  
have more experience w/ mailbox2. If people really needed timeouts &  
cursors they would have been added by now. I do encourage people to  
try using it  though. The api is an extension of mailbox so just  
changing the '(use mailbox)' to '(use mailbox2)' is enough.

While the overhead to support the new features is minimal to none the  
mutations behind the scenes to data structures are scary. And it  
makes use of undocumented "features." And I haven't tested it w/  
async i/o yet.

I need the mailbox2 features for TinT (really only timeouts, cursors  
are just nice). Maybe others can find a use for them in web-oriented  
code?

> cheers,
> felix

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