The async package
This package provides a higher-level interface over threads, in which an Async a is a concurrent thread that will eventually deliver a value of type a. The package provides ways to create Async computations, wait for their results, and cancel them.
Using Async is safer than using threads in two ways:
When waiting for a thread to return a result, if the thread dies with an exception then the caller must either re-throw the exception (wait) or handle it (waitCatch); the exception cannot be ignored.
The API makes it possible to build a tree of threads that are automatically killed when their parent dies (see withAsync).
Properties
Versions | 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.1.2, 2.0.1.3, 2.0.1.4, 2.0.1.5, 2.0.1.6, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.1.1 |
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Change log | changelog.md |
Dependencies | base (>=4.3 && <4.11), stm (>=2.2 && <2.5) [details] |
License | BSD3 |
Copyright | (c) Simon Marlow 2012 |
Author | Simon Marlow |
Maintainer | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> |
Category | Concurrency |
Home page | https://github.com/simonmar/async |
Bug tracker | https://github.com/simonmar/async/issues |
Source repository | head: git clone https://github.com/simonmar/async.git |
Uploaded | Mon Apr 10 08:06:04 UTC 2017 by SimonMarlow |
Distributions | Arch:2.1.1.1, Debian:2.0.2, Fedora:2.1.1, FreeBSD:2.0.2, LTSHaskell:2.1.1.1, NixOS:2.1.1.1, Stackage:2.1.1.1, Tumbleweed:2.1.1.1 |
Downloads | 109600 total (15833 in the last 30 days) |
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Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2017-04-10 [all 1 reports] |
Downloads
- async-2.1.1.1.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (included in the package)