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"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic2' }"

"{ NameSpace: Smalltalk }"

DelayedValue subclass:#Future

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Kernel-Processes'

!

!Future class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

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!

documentation

"

    I represent an execution in progress, which will be required some time

    in the future.

    I will immediately start execution in a separate process,

    but delay any messages sent to me, until the execution has completed.

    This is useful for time consuming operations (print jobs, compile jobs etc.),

    which can be done in the background and the user can do something else

    in the meantime. If the computation is finished before the user needs its

    value, he is not forced to wait.

    If the computation is unfinished, he has to wait for the remaining time only.

    [author:]

        tph@cs.man.ac.uk

    [see also:]

        Block Lazy LazyValue

"

!

examples

"

  Starts evaluating the factorial immediately, but waits until

  the result is available before printing the answer

                                                                    [exBegin]

    | fac |

    fac := [10000 factorial printString] futureValue.

    Transcript showCR: 'evaluating factorial...'.

    Dialog information:'You can do something useful now...'.

    Transcript showCR: fac

                                                                    [exEnd]

  An example illustrating the use of multiple futures and

  explicit resynchronisation.

  Starts evaluating both factorials immediately, but waits until

  both blocks have finished before continuing.

                                                                    [exBegin]

    | fac1 fac2 |

    fac1 := [Transcript showCR: 'Starting fac1.. '. 100000 factorial. Transcript showCR: 'Finished fac1'] futureValue.

    fac2 := [Transcript showCR: 'Starting fac2.. '. 150000 factorial. Transcript showCR: 'Finished fac2'] futureValue.

    fac2 value.

    fac1 value.

    Transcript showCR: 'both completed.'.

                                                                    [exEnd]

  Example showing how arguments may be passed to futures.

                                                                    [exBegin]

    | temp |

    temp := [:x :y | 10 * x * y] futureValue: 3 value: 4.

    Transcript  showCR: temp.

                                                                    [exEnd]

  Claus:

    The above examples do not really show the power of Futures;

    they can be useful, whenever some long-time computation is

    to be done, and some other useful work can be done in the meanwhile.

    for example:

    Without futures, the inputfile is read before opening the view;

    the readTime and view creation times sum up:

                                                                    [exBegin]

        |p text v t1 t2 tAll|

        tAll := TimeDuration toRun:[

            t1 := TimeDuration toRun:[

                p := PipeStream readingFrom:'ls -l /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /etc'.

                text := p contents.

                p close.

            ].

            t2 := TimeDuration toRun:[

                v := TextView new openAndWait.

            ].    

            v contents:text

        ].

        Transcript showCR:'Time to read: %1' with:t1.

        Transcript showCR:'Time to open: %1' with:t2.

        Transcript showCR:'Time overall: %1' with:tAll.

                                                                    [exEnd]

    The same here:

                                                                    [exBegin]

        |p text v|

        v := TextView new openAndWait.

        p := PipeStream readingFrom:'ls -l /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /etc'.

        text := p contents.

        p close.

        v contents:text

                                                                    [exEnd]

    With futures, the view creation and reading are done in parallel:

    (if the windowing system is slow when opening the view, the contents may

     be already available - especially on X window systems, where the user

     has to provide the window position with the mouse)

                                                                    [exBegin]

        |p text v t1 t2 tAll|

        tAll := TimeDuration toRun:[

            text := [   

                        |p t|

                        t1 := TimeDuration toRun:[

                            p := PipeStream readingFrom:'ls -l /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /etc'.

                            t := p contents.

                            p close.

                        ].     

                        t

                    ] futureValue.

            t2 := TimeDuration toRun:[

                v := TextView new openAndWait.

            ].    

            v contents:text

        ].

        Transcript showCR:'Time to read: %1' with:t1.

        Transcript showCR:'Time to open: %1' with:t2.

        Transcript showCR:'Time overall: %1' with:tAll.

                                                                    [exEnd]

"

! !

!Future methodsFor:'evaluating'!

block:aBlock

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:aBlock

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:19 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:26:39 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:12 / Claus Gittinger"

!

block:aBlock value:aValue

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:aValue]

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:23 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:27:03 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:09 / Claus Gittinger"

!

block:aBlock value:value1 value:value2

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:value1 value:value2]

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:27 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:27:20 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:06 / Claus Gittinger"

!

block:aBlock value:value1 value:value2 value:value3

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:value1 value:value2 value:value3]

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:31 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:27:31 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:03 / Claus Gittinger"

!

block:aBlock valueWithArguments:anArray

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock valueWithArguments:anArray]

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:34 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:27:40 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:49:52 / Claus Gittinger"

!

priority:prio block:aBlock

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:aBlock atPriority:prio

    "Created: / 04-10-2011 / 14:53:21 / cg"

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:38 / cg"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:20 / Claus Gittinger"

    "Modified: / 11-09-2019 / 16:19:48 / Stefan Vogel"

!

priority:prio block: aBlock value: aValue

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:aValue] atPriority:prio

    "Created: / 04-10-2011 / 14:53:35 / cg"

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:41 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:28:02 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:23 / Claus Gittinger"

!

priority:prio block:aBlock value:value1 value:value2

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:value1 value:value2] atPriority:prio

    "Created: / 04-10-2011 / 14:54:03 / cg"

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:44 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:28:10 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:26 / Claus Gittinger"

!

priority:prio block:aBlock value:value1 value:value2 value:value3

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock value:value1 value:value2 value:value3] atPriority:prio

    "Created: / 04-10-2011 / 14:54:51 / cg"

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:47 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:28:21 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:29 / Claus Gittinger"

!

priority:prio block:aBlock valueWithArguments:anArray

    "Execute aBlock in parallel with whoever called me, 

     but ensure that any messages sent to me before execution

     of the block has terminated are suspended until it has terminated."

    self signalSemaphoreAfterForked:[aBlock valueWithArguments:anArray] atPriority:prio

    "Created: / 04-10-2011 / 14:55:14 / cg"

    "Modified: / 09-08-2017 / 11:54:50 / cg"

    "Modified: / 12-02-2019 / 20:28:30 / Stefan Vogel"

    "Modified (comment): / 25-06-2019 / 07:50:32 / Claus Gittinger"

! !

!Future methodsFor:'initialization'!

initializeSemaphore

    "here, the semaphore is created when the evaluation block is defined"

    "Created: / 25-06-2019 / 10:35:24 / Claus Gittinger"

! !

!Future methodsFor:'private'!

signalSemaphoreAfterForked:aBlock

    "common code for all block:* methods.

     Execute aBlock in parallel with whatever called me, 

     and ensure that my private semaphore is signalled at the end."

    semaphore := Semaphore name:'Future'.

    [

        result := aBlock ensure:[semaphore signal. semaphore := nil.]

    ] fork

    "Created: / 25-06-2019 / 07:32:28 / Claus Gittinger"

!

signalSemaphoreAfterForked:aBlock atPriority:prio

    "common code for all block:* methods.

     Execute aBlock in parallel with whatever called me, 

     and ensure that my private semaphore is signalled at the end."

    semaphore := Semaphore name:'Future'.

    [

        result := aBlock ensure:[semaphore signal. semaphore := nil.]

    ] forkAt:prio

    "Created: / 25-06-2019 / 07:33:55 / Claus Gittinger"

! !

!Future class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

    ^ '$Header$'

!

version_CVS

    ^ '$Header$'

! !