Hi,

the average channel has no queue. Processes freeze until the peer process 
arrives. So count doesn't make sense for the typical channel. If you want 
to implement a queue, you could create a process which accepts values on 
end and distributes to the other. Then you can keep also track of any stats 
you like independent of the underlying channel implementation.

(defn queue-process
  [input output stats]
  (async/go
    ; Wait for the first input.
    (loop [v (async/<! input)
           q clojure.lang.PersistentQueue/EMPTY]
      (let [[val-to-q ch] (async/alts! [input [output v]])]
        (swap! stats update-stats q)
        (cond
          ; Read a value from input.
          val-to-q (recur v (conj q val-to-q))

          ; Input channel is closed. => Empty queue.
          (identical? ch input) (do
                                  (doseq [v (cons v q)]
                                    (async/>! output v))
                                  (async/close! output))

          ; Write happened, and there is more in the queue.
          (pos? (count q)) (recur (peek q) (pop q))

          ; Write happened, and queue is empty. Start over.
          :else (recur (async/<! input) q))))))

With something like that, you can implement any queueing strategy (bounded, 
priority, etc.) you like with any stats you want to collect without 
polluting the general channel interface.

Disclaimer: I haven't used core.async much, yet. So there might be glitches 
in the above, but you should get the idea. Also, it might be a bad idea 
altogether.

Meikel

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