Stephen Pair <stephen at pairhome.net> wrote:
> While we're talking about SharedQueue...I'd like to take this 
> opportunity to remind everyone of the SharedStreams package on 
> SqueakMap.  I would actually like to see SharedQueue deprecated in favor 
> of SharedBufferStream.  SharedBufferStream offers better compatibility 
> with the Stream protocols and offers all the functionality (and then 
> some) of SharedQueue.  The SharedStreams package also contains a 
> SharedBidirectionalStream which can act like a SocketStream (without 
> actually using a socket) except that you are not limited to only using 
> Character objects in the stream.
> 
> - Stephen

What can I say? I am flattered. :-)

But it's true I guess - we did model SharedBufferStream inspired by the
implementation of SharedQueue but optimized for streams of characters
(much, much faster than relying on a SharedQueue of Character objects).

And then Stephen has played with them recently and discovered that they
can easily be used with objects too. Only one method needed change I
think. And IIRC these classes are more robust than SharedQueue (it had a
couple of sneaky bugs).

regards, Göran