On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:29 PM David Wahlstedt < david.wahlstedt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks--nice! > Will this be less reliable than the built-in Ticker (that uses > runtimeTimer), besides the intentional randomness? > modulo the possible bug(s) I may have unintentionally introduced, I think it should be as reliable. (perhaps a bit less efficient than runtimeTimer, I haven't had the intellectual curiosity to look at what runtimeTimer does.) -s > > /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> >> 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. > -- 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.
