From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems of everyday life Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:54:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87v8nf6jb8.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87r0y4w8hy.fsf@dataswamp.org> <86v8nfuyl6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2705"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KwsiRp9WNXuroPjw/b2Wyupak1E= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 21:10:57 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ovOkK-0000SU-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:10:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovOjn-0003ji-NJ; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovJoc-0002gt-M6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovJob-0003bo-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ovJoY-0009fH-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:54:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:10:22 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141018 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: >> or maybe >> >> (apply #'+ '(5 7 10)) >> >> or ... well, what do you prefer? > > This reminds the implementation of sleep sort: > > (dolist (i '(3 1 4 1 5 92 65 3 5 89 79 3)) > (run-with-timer (* i 0.001) nil 'message "%d" i)) This made my day :) (defun sleep-sort (&rest lst) (let ((sorted)) (dolist (i lst) (run-with-timer (* i 0.001) nil (lambda () (push i sorted))) ) (while (> (length lst) (length sorted)) (sleep-for 1) ) (nreverse sorted) )) (sleep-sort 3 1 4 1 5 92 65 3 5 89 79 3) -> (1 1 3 3 3 4 5 5 65 79 89 92) Maybe one can integrate the busy wait somehow since the maximum wait time is known ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal