length

Returns the length of the queue.

Actually this function returns the number of data items in the queue minus the number of waiting threads, so a negative value means waiting threads, and a positive value means available entries in the this. A return value of 0 could mean n entries in the queue and n threads waiting. This can happen due to locking of the queue or due to scheduling.

Parameters:

this	a AsyncQueue.

Returns:

the length of the this