rolling-queue: Bounded channel for STM that discards old entries when full

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This package provides a FIFO channel for STM supporting a size limit. When this limit is reached, older entries are discarded to make way for newer entries.

The motivation for this is logging. If log entries are written to a plain TChan, the program will use a lot of memory if it produces log entries faster than they can be processed. If log entries are written to a bounded channel where writes block (e.g. the stm-chans package), the program may deadlock if the log channel fills up. With Data.STM.RollingQueue, old entries will be discarded instead.

Possible improvements (not available in Data.STM.RollingQueue) include:

  • Discard lower-priority entries first.

  • Discard every other entry, so some of the older entries will still be available.

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Versions [RSS] 0.1
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), stm [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright (c) Joseph Adams 2012
Author Joey Adams
Maintainer joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com
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Home page https://github.com/joeyadams/haskell-rolling-queue
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/joeyadams/haskell-rolling-queue.git
Uploaded by JoeyAdams at 2012-02-16T09:11:29Z
Distributions NixOS:0.1
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