Should exist, but probably doesn't (2)

Simon Cozens simon at simon-cozens.org
Thu Dec 7 22:25:18 GMT 2006


Andy Armstrong:
> >the application code doesn't need to know it's running an async job at
> >all.
> 
> So does the main thread / process / whatever get an async  
> notification when one of the workers completes? Like a signal perhaps?

Sounds like a job for continuations. Until then, there's POE.

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