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A bounded channel.

Channel size specification. For each possible element type, it shows how many elements of them could be stored in the given channel at once.

Fork off a computation as a new thread.

Fork off a computation as a new thread, with access to its own thread ID.

Forcibly terminate a thread, then continue execution immediately.

Forcibly terminate a thread. Blocks until the thread is actually dead.

Wait for a thread to terminate.

Sleep for a given amount of microseconds. Implemented with usleep. A C compiler might require a feature test macro to be defined, otherwise it emits a warning about an implicitly declared function. For more details, see: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/usleep.3.html

Takes n times the size of type refered by proxy.

Multiplies a channel size specification with a scalar.

Adds two channel size specifications together.

Create a new channel. Writing a reference type to a channel will copy contents into the channel, so modifying it post-write is completely safe.

Read an element from a channel. If channel is empty, blocks until there is an item available. If closeChan has been called on the channel *and* if the channel is empty, readChan returns an undefined value immediately.

Write a data element to a channel. If closeChan has been called on the channel, all calls to writeChan become non-blocking no-ops and return False, otherwise returns True. If the channel is full, this function blocks until there's space in the queue.

Read an arbitrary number of elements from a channel into an array. The semantics are the same as for readChan, where "channel is empty" is defined as "channel contains less data than requested". Returns False without reading any data if the channel is closed.

Write an arbitrary number of elements from an array into an channel. The semantics are the same as for writeChan, where "channel is full" is defined as "channel has insufficient free space to store all written data".

Close a channel. All subsequent write operations will be no-ops. After the channel is drained, all subsequent read operations will be no-ops as well.

When readChan was last called on the given channel, did the read succeed? Always returns True unless closeChan has been called on the channel. Always returns True if the channel has never been read.