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how would you avoid waiting for all the futures to finish?

soulcheck
– soulcheck

2013-08-19 13:57:07 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 13:57
Yes, futures were what I was considering but I can't see a way of not blocking unnecessarily. Suppose expr1 takes 10s to evaluate, expr2 1s to evaluate and expr3 100s. How do I know that I should call deref/@ on expr2 given that in general I have no a priori information on the likely evaluation times; otherwise I could just evaluate expr2 in thread and be done with it ;)

Sean Holdsworth
– Sean Holdsworth

2013-08-19 14:00:47 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 14:00
@SeanHoldsworth By using (realized?) maybe?

Chiron
– Chiron

2013-08-19 14:04:33 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 14:04
@Chiron wouldn't that imply some form of busy waiting?

soulcheck
– soulcheck

2013-08-19 14:28:19 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 14:28

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