[Haskell-cafe] ANN: pooled-io

[Rob Stewart]

Hi,

Looks interesting. Did you also consider implementing this throttled
workpool of IO actions on top of the async library [1]? E.g.
    mapPool :: T.Traversable t => Int -> (a -> IO b) -> t a -> IO (t b)

As in the following SO answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/18898822/1526266

[1] - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async

--
Rob

On 17 January 2014 16:07, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> I uploaded the package pooled-io to Hackage:
>    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pooled-io
>
> It is intended to perform parallelism in the IO monad. I needed it for
> computations that must write intermediate data to disk. The main task of the
> package is to make sure that no more than a maximum number of actions is run
> in parallel. There are three modules: For actions without monadic results,
> for actions with monadic results and for actions that depend on each others
> results.
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