Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com a écrit :
I don't think this use of the word turn is broadly enough known to provide
many spec. readers an immediate intuitive feeling for the concept.
It seems to me that the word turn is widely used in that sense for
On Mar 3, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
Now its just a word that we are assigning our own meaning to, so we can use
turn if we want. But is that equivalence of turn and task really what
you're used to, and something whose meaning is intuitive enough?
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.comwrote:
On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
Is chore better than turn?
Mark, to me turn, as a noun, sounds like a scheduling slot rather than
the thing that gets scheduled into the slot. For example: in
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache claude.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com a
écrit :
I don't think this use of the word turn is broadly enough known to
provide many spec. readers an immediate intuitive feeling for the
Mark,
As I've already said, I can live with Turn. It's big advantage is that it
completely avoids confusion with the HTML Task/Micro-task concepts.
Allen
On Mar 4, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com
wrote:
On
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache claude.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com a écrit :
I don't think this use of the word turn is broadly enough known to provide
many spec. readers an immediate intuitive feeling for the concept.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache claude.pa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com a
écrit :
I don't think this use of the word turn is broadly enough known
The benefit of turn is that I've seen this terminology used almost
exclusively for denoting an atomic turn of an event loop (tick is also
often used). By contrast, terms such as task are used much more broadly
(e.g. tasks scheduled on a thread pool). Just my 2c.
2014-03-04 19:47 GMT+01:00 Mark
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Mark S. Miller erig...@google.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache claude.pa...@gmail.com
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Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com
On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Tom Van Cutsem wrote:
The benefit of turn is that I've seen this terminology used almost
exclusively for denoting an atomic turn of an event loop (tick is also
often used). By contrast, terms such as task are used much more broadly
(e.g. tasks scheduled on a
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Tom Van Cutsem tomvc...@gmail.com wrote:
The benefit of turn is that I've seen this terminology used almost
exclusively for denoting an atomic turn of an event loop (tick is also
often used).
I was drafting a response that said exactly this, came back from
Le 4 mars 2014 à 19:47, Mark S. Miller erig...@google.com a écrit :
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache claude.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com a
Tom Van Cutsem wrote:
By contrast, terms such as task are used much more broadly (e.g.
tasks scheduled on a thread pool).
Yes, and a Task (e.g., in Rust; akin to goroutine in Go or Process in
Erlang) can be suspended voluntarily. The use of task goes way back
(multi-tasking).
I think we
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On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
al...@wirfs-brock.commailto:al...@wirfs-brock.com wrote:
...
Hi Allen, I agree that it's good to keep these levels separate by adopting
distinct
On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
I'd like some help understanding why we are not using the word micro-tasks
here, and more generally why we are going our separate way and not trying to
unify with HTML. Here is my understanding:
I've specifically avoided the word
Is chore better than turn?
On Mar 3, 2014 4:10 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com wrote:
On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
I'd like some help understanding why we are not using the word
micro-tasks here, and more generally why we are going our separate way
and
On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
Is chore better than turn?
Mark, to me turn, as a noun, sounds like a scheduling slot rather than the
thing that gets scheduled into the slot. For example: in the next turn, we
will run the handler for promise p. The thing that gets
Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
Now its just a word that we are assigning our own meaning to, so we
can use turn if we want. But is that equivalence of turn and
task really what you're used to, and something whose meaning is
intuitive enough?
On naming, we can use Turn instead of Task if enough
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.comwrote:
I was going to respond via github to this issue comment, but I figured
the answer probably was of interest to a broader audience. So go and read
https://github.com/Raynos/observ-hash/issues/2#issuecomment-35857671
On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com
wrote:
...
Hi Allen, I agree that it's good to keep these levels separate by adopting
distinct terminology. However, using the term Task to avoid confusion with
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