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From: | Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: | Re: Whats' the proper senario of par-map? (Was Re: bug#13188: par-map causes VM stack overflow) |
Date: | Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:52:51 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> skribis: > And there're two possible applications: > 1. handle the requests in a server > 2. read files from disk (but how big file is proper for par-map) Quoting the fine manual: Note that futures are intended for the evaluation of purely functional expressions. Expressions that have side-effects or rely on I/O may require additional care, such as explicit synchronization (*note Mutexes and Condition Variables::). IOW, think twice before you use it for something not purely computational. :-) Ludo’.
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