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This is the class of queue objects. Queues are conceptually (but not necessarily implementationally) like first-in first-out lists, with objects being enqueued by being appended onto the end and dequeued by being popped off the front. Queues are more convenient than lists in a multiprocessing environment because enqueuing and dequeuing operations are atomic (they will complete without a process switch) and because dequeuing has a built-in wait capability. Queues have no intrinsic size limit.
Queues are created with make-instance. The following form will return a new queue:
(make-instance 'mp:queue)
See enqueue, dequeue, queue-empty-p, and Queues (both models) in multiprocessing.htm.
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Created 2010.1.21.
| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |