On 29 November 2005 06:29, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:27:46PM +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> How would you implement a timed read from a channel with STM? I would
>> like to return Timeout if nothing was read from a TChan in X ms.
>>
>> Is this a basic two-thread timeout implementation or is there a more
>> elegant way of implementing this using `orElse`?
>
> Here is a basic two-thread implementation:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2005-January/008303.html
>
> The other approach I see is to create a TVar that would be updated
> with current time every 0.1 s (or something like that), but that would
> be rather inefficient.
>
> You could also create a time-out manager thread (with a priority
> queue, etc), so you don't have to spawn a thread for every timeout.
Interestingly, GHC already has a timeout thread - the I/O manager thread
handles threadDelay too. It wouldn't be too hard to adapt it to do STM
timeouts too, with a function like
registerTimeout :: Int -> STM (TVar Bool)
and you wait for your timeout by waiting for the TVar to contain True.
Cheers,
Simon
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