From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fun with async processes
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:11:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmo793ne.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YfghHDX8zpWglPQb@tuxteam.de
tomas wrote:
>>> An obvious approach is to have each sentinel call a "global"
>>> sentinel which checks whether there are any processes still
>>> running (akin to your myrun, only that it just gets called
>>> after each process's termination).
>>
>> Won't that move the "busy wait" to the global sentinel?
>
> No. Assume you are interested in 12 processes: that "global
> sentinel" would be called 12 times. The busy wait, as
> envisioned, gets called 10 times /per second/.
A dedicated resource server/scheduler ... it _is_ busy, doing
it's intended thing :)
But this type of overhead is a very common solution so by all
means ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-31 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-31 15:44 Fun with async processes Manuel Giraud
2022-01-31 15:56 ` tomas
2022-01-31 17:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-31 17:49 ` tomas
2022-01-31 18:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-02-01 8:54 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-01 10:50 ` tomas
2022-02-01 13:30 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-01 13:43 ` tomas
2022-02-01 13:54 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-02-01 14:31 ` tomas
2022-02-01 23:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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