send vs dispatch and continuously running processes
Kee Nethery
kee at kagi.com
Thu Sep 30 10:43:21 EDT 2010
On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> If you DO use a repeat loop, the 'wait <time> with messages' is pretty much
> obligatory right?
Have never used it but it seems like a good thing to include as a general housekeeping kind of thing.
> So you can setup an exit strategy and so that pending
> messages (such as sends and dispatches) will still be processed, right?
I don't use send in time I just use immediate sends. Current handler halts until the send completes.
From what I can see in the dos, dispatch is also an immediate thing. It blocks until it completes.
Kee
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