send ( message thread -- )
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receive ( -- message )

Vocabulary
concurrency.messaging

Inputs and outputs

message	an object
thread	a thread

Word description
Send the message to the thread by placing it in the thread's mailbox. This is an asynchronous operation and will return immediately. The receiving thread will act on the message the next time it retrieves that item from its mailbox (usually using the receive word). The message can be any Factor object. For destinations that are instances of remote-thread the message must be a serializable Factor type.

See also
receive, receive-if

Definition

IN: concurrency.messaging

GENERIC: send ( message thread -- )

Methods

USING: accessors arrays assocs concurrency.distributed
concurrency.distributed.private concurrency.messaging kernel ;

M: remote-thread send
    [ id>> 2array ] [ node>> ] [ thread-connections at ] tri
    [ nip send-to-connection ] [ send-remote-message ] if* ;


USING: concurrency.mailboxes concurrency.messaging threads ;

M: thread send mailbox-of mailbox-put ;