lazy-async

Version 1.0.0.0 revision 0 uploaded 2021-07-27T07:59:57.000Z by chris_martin.

Package meta

Synopsis

Asynchronous actions that don't start right away

Description

Sometimes we have a bunch of IO actions that do things like read files, make HTTP requests, or query a database. Some of the information that these actions produce might not end up being needed, depending on the breaks. In the interest of avoiding unnecessary effort, we don't want to simply run all the actions and collect their results upfront. We also don't want to simply run an action right before its result is needed, because it might be needed in more than one place, which opens the possibility of unnecessarily running the same action more than once. In situations like these, we use LazyAsync.

Under the hood, an IO action is turned into a LazyAsync by constructing two things: An Async (from the async package), and a TVar Bool (from the stm package). The TVar, initialized to False, indicates whether the action is wanted yet. The async thread waits until the TVar turns True and then runs the action.

Author

Chris Martin

Bug reports

https://github.com/typeclasses/lazy-async/issues

Category

Concurrency

Copyright

2021 Mission Valley Software LLC

Homepage

https://github.com/typeclasses/lazy-async

Maintainer

Chris Martin, Julie Moronuki

Package URL

n/a

Stability

n/a

Components

• lib:lazy-async
• test:test