Thanks--nice! Will this be less reliable than the built-in Ticker (that uses runtimeTimer), besides the intentional randomness?
/David Den tisdag 25 september 2018 kl. 18:43:33 UTC+2 skrev Sebastien Binet: > > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:34 AM David Wahlstedt <david.wah...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> What would be a nice way to implement a ticker that generates events >> according to a Poisson process? >> The built-in Ticker in ticker.go uses a runtimeTimer that has a field >> called period. >> I would like to implement a "random ticker" such that each tick interval >> is random, using ExpFloat64() * d, with average duration d, instead of a >> fixed interval. >> I could have a go routine that sleeps a random amount of time in a loop, >> but it would be nice to use something similar to the ticker. >> > > just for fun: https://play.golang.org/p/kt0qVQ41E1C > (yes, it uses a goroutine that sleeps a random amount of time in a loop.) > > -s > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
