Re: Fun with async processes

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

>>> An obvious approach is to have each sentinel call a "global"
>>> sentinel which checks whether there are any processes still
>>> running (akin to your myrun, only that it just gets called
>>> after each process's termination).
>> 
>> Won't that move the "busy wait" to the global sentinel?
>
> No. Assume you are interested in 12 processes: that "global
> sentinel" would be called 12 times. The busy wait, as
> envisioned, gets called 10 times /per second/.

A dedicated resource server/scheduler ... it _is_ busy, doing
it's intended thing :)

But this type of overhead is a very common solution so by all
means ...

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