Couldn't you periodically (every N iterations) save the array to disk? Or even better, put it in a global variable?
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 5:07:17 AM UTC-5, Felipe Jiménez wrote: > > I have a long loop going. It solves a solitaire board-game by brute force > search, and depending on the initial configuration it could take seconds or > years to finish, I never know. > > I would like to be able to interrupt the loop at any time and save its > state (basically the values in an Array the loop operates on). That would > allow me to resume the loop later from where it left, instead of starting > all over again. > > Of course Ctrl-C is no good because I lose the state of the loop. My idea > is something like: > > while true > # do stuff # > if (keyboard was pressed) && (key was 'p') # for "pause" > save Array to hard disk > return > end > end > > But I don't know how to check if "keyboard was pressed" and what key it > was. I cannot use chomp(readline()) because this waits until the user > hits Enter, which stops the loop going (unless I leave a spoon pressing the > Enter key :-). I need something that looks at the keyboard stack to see if > a key was recently pressed, and if none was pressed, it does nothing and > lets the loop continue without delay. > > I normally work at the REPL. > > Any ideas? > > Like always, sorry if my Q is too basic, but I did check the documentation > and the web and could not solve it. > And a big thank you to the Julia developers and community. I am loving it. >
