async: Run IO operations asynchronously and wait for their results
This package provides a higher-level interface over
threads, in which an Async a is a concurrent
thread that will eventually deliver a value of
type a. The package provides ways to create
Async computations, wait for their results, and
cancel them.
Using Async is safer than using threads in two
ways:
When waiting for a thread to return a result, if the thread dies with an exception then the caller must either re-throw the exception (
wait) or handle it (waitCatch); the exception cannot be ignored.The API makes it possible to build a tree of threads that are automatically killed when their parent dies (see
withAsync).
| Versions [faq] | 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.1.2, 2.0.1.3, 2.0.1.4, 2.0.1.5, 2.0.1.6, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 |
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| Change log | changelog.md |
| Dependencies | async, base (>=4.3 && <4.14), hashable (>=1.1.2.0 && <1.4), stm (>=2.2 && <2.6) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | (c) Simon Marlow 2012 |
| Author | Simon Marlow |
| Maintainer | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> |
| Category | Concurrency |
| Home page | https://github.com/simonmar/async |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/simonmar/async/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/simonmar/async.git |
| Uploaded | by SimonMarlow at Thu Jun 6 08:27:35 UTC 2019 |
| Distributions | Arch:2.2.2, Debian:2.2.1, Fedora:2.2.1, FreeBSD:2.0.2, LTSHaskell:2.2.2, NixOS:2.2.2, Stackage:2.2.2, openSUSE:2.2.2 |
| Executables | race, conccancel, concasync |
| Downloads | 232669 total (993 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.5 (votes: 6) [estimated by rule of succession] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2019-06-06 [all 1 reports] |
Flags
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| bench | Disabled | Automatic |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- async-2.2.2.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (as included in the package)