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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delimited continuations to the rescue of futures
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:28:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txsicz7t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y5hzritn.fsf@gnu.org

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I guess the one remaining concern I have is that if there are any
>> long-running futures in the process, then any 'touch' could take a very
>> long time to complete, even if the future it is waiting for is a very
>> short job.
>>
>> For example, (par-map - '(1 2 3)) could take several minutes to complete
>> if (par-map process-image list-of-images) is being done in another
>> thread.
>
> Right.  That’s actually easy to fix, but the advantage of the current
> solution is that it uses less code.  Anyway, you’re probably right, so
> I’ll do that.

I didn’t do that (as discussed in this thread), and ended up merging
wip-nested-futures as is.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-16 23:36 Delimited continuations to the rescue of futures Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-17  4:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-17 13:43   ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-17 16:56     ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-17 22:00       ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-18 22:19         ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-20 19:20           ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-21 12:18             ` Peter TB Brett
2012-11-21 13:36               ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-21 16:45                 ` Peter TB Brett
2012-11-21 21:19                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-21 23:28         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-14  2:34 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-01-14 10:37   ` Ludovic Courtès

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