Impressive!

Can I specify the semantic behind #shootIt ? I mean, now you are spawning processes right? Can I instead open a new image to have the work done?

Alexandre

On Jun 22, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all, im glad to announce TaskIT. You may already knew about, after all it's not confidential ;) and it has documentation on-going since some months ago.
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> Task IT is package that provides a cool way to deal with processes. Even when this version is stable, it still in design and we want to make it consistent and powerfull.
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> It counts with a chapter in pharo enterprise book and some cool tests.
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> We have moved the main distribution repo to CAR
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> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~CAR/TaskIT/
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> The main easy things to do with this revision are:
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> " closures "
> val := [ 2+2 ] shootIt.
> val isKindOf: TKTFuture.
> val onSuccess: [: rslt | rslt == 4 ] "async"
> val value == 4. " sync "
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> rslt := [ 2+2 ] shootIt asResult.
> rslt == 4 "sync on demand"
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> " objects "
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> val := 2 paralellize + 2.
> val == 4 "sync on demand"
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> " staying in tune "
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> val := [ "some task" ] shootIt asStickyReference.
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> val := nil.
> " sticky means that if this future is taken by the GC, it will kill the process"
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> " looping ��"
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> val := server paralellize looping serveOnce: anyParameter asStickyReference.
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> "this will execute in a new process, in a loop, server serveOnce: anyParameter."
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> You can stop it by doing
> val:= nil.
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> "or using a disgusting magic variable, for that check the samples :). But do not rely on that kind of things, because it will not be supported "
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> For more advanced and cool usages, check the Doc.
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> FAQ:
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> 1- Yes, the "sync" on demand is implemented with a proxy and a become.
> 2- Yes, we are changing the API of the processes that persist in time.
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> CREDITS
> �� All CAR team in general was great inspiration, particularly, Guille Polito full operational commiter and ��of course is always a good idea to discuss with him, ��Nick Papoylias, is also great to discuss with him. Luc, Noury, Jannik: several ideas are discussed with them as well, and they always gave me support.
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> and from RMOD Esteban Lorenzano, also discussing and proposing.
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> Thanks all :).
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> ��OTHERS:
> If you want to go to the darkside (dark because is not documented yet, but in the case of PoolIT, that it has some doc ) you can also add to your combo:
> ActIT: a simple Actor extention for taskit.
> ForkIT: an extention that runs blocks in background image (it adds a nice button to the test runner, letting you run all your tests in a background image and installing the results after the execution)
> PoolIT: it adds a pool of workers, it consumes tasks and ensure you a limited amount of threads.
> PlanIT: a basic and not yet full developed algebra for composing processes.
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> I encourage you to use it, it is being used in PhaROS since a lot ��of time. And please any bug and enhancements, you can contact us. Since we are working on the next version is a good time to define what features are really needed.
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> Salut.
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> Santiago. .
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