gang-of-threads-3.2.1: Non-deterministic parallelism with bags

PortabilityPOSIX
Stabilityexperimental
Maintainerbastianholst@gmx.de
Safe HaskellSafe-Inferred

Control.Concurrent.Bag.SafeConcurrent

Description

High level bag of tasks interface based on Control.Concurrent.Concurrent. Tasks can only return results and add new tasks as intended and it is not possible to add new tasks from the outside or from the action processing the results. This way it is possible to ensure that getResults returns only Nothing if it is safe to say that there will be no results anymore.

Synopsis

Documentation

data BagT r m a Source

A monad transformer for processing the results of the bag sequencially. In addition to the actions available in the base monad, which has to be an instance of MonadIO in all functions, it provides the action getResult to get a result of the bag.

Instances

MonadTrans (BagT r) 
Monad m => Monad (BagT r m) 
Monad m => Functor (BagT r m) 
Monad m => Applicative (BagT r m) 
MonadIO m => MonadIO (BagT r m) 

newTaskBagSource

Arguments

:: MonadIO m 
=> BufferType

buffer type

-> [TaskIO r (Maybe r)]

list of initial tasks

-> BagT r m a

action to process the results of the bag

-> m a 

Initializes a new bag of tasks and starts a gang of workers threads. The number of worker threads is equal to the number of capabilities of the Haskell runtime (see getNumCapabilities).

__WARNING__: If it may be necessary to terminate the thread pool, i.e. because the result processing function does not always request all values, you have to make sure that the task can be stopped. Terminating the tasks is done with asynchronous exceptions which can only be received at a emph{safe point}. Safe points are all points where memory allocation is requested, but there are calculations and also loops which never need any new memory. These calculations cannot be terminated and may run forever, see the documentation of throwTo.

newEvalBagSource

Arguments

:: MonadIO m 
=> BufferType

buffer type

-> [r]

expressions to evaluate

-> BagT r m a

action to process the results of the bag

-> m a 

Like newTaskBag, but it takes a list of expressions that will be evaluated to weak head normal form using seq.

__WARNING__: This does not evaluate to normal form, but only to weak head normal form.

newInterruptibleBagSource

Arguments

:: MonadIO m 
=> BufferType

buffer type

-> [Interruptible r]

list of initial tasks

-> BagT r m a

action to process the results of the bag

-> m a 

Similar to newTaskBag, but taking a list of Interruptible instead of tasks.

newInterruptingBagSource

Arguments

:: MonadIO m 
=> BufferType

buffer type

-> [Interruptible r]

list of initial tasks

-> BagT r m a

action to process the results of the bag

-> m a 

Similar to newInterruptibleBag, but interrupts the tasks in certain intervals. Using a TChan as buffer, this ensures completeness: all tasks that have a result will get their time to evaluate it. Note, that calculations, that do no memory allocation, cannot be interrupted.

getResult :: MonadIO m => BagT r m (Maybe r)Source

Get a result of the bag if there is one. If it returns Nothing, all tasks have been processed and there are no results left. getResults blocks until a task has been evaluated to a result or all tasks are processed. Therefore it may block forever.

getAllResults :: MonadIO m => BagT a m [a]Source

Convenience function to get all results from the bag of tasks.

liftIO :: MonadIO m => forall a. IO a -> m a

Lift a computation from the IO monad.

lift :: MonadTrans t => forall m a. Monad m => m a -> t m a

Lift a computation from the argument monad to the constructed monad.

data BufferType Source

The type of a buffer. At this time you can only select between Queue and Stack.

Constructors

Queue

A first in first out (FIFO) buffer.

Stack

A last in first out (LIFO) buffer.