Check out the implementation of multi.jl:pmap (the part in the @sync and @async blocks), it's a great example.
--Tim On Thursday, July 17, 2014 04:23:48 PM Elliot Saba wrote: > I was reading the docs > <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/control-flow/#tasks-and-event > s>, and it seems to me that it's saying I can use tasks to run multiple > subprocesses at once. E.g., if I have some long-running subprocesses such > as `sleep 10`, I should be able to wrap each in a Task and use the inherent > wait() command that running each subprocess would entail to switch to > another task and kick off another subprocess. Is this correct? If it is, > can someone provide me a quick example? I can't seem to get this to work, > but I've never used Tasks before so that's hardly surprising. ;) > -E
