This is going to sound like a daft question, but: is there any reason
that the thread that calls 'touch' needs to be the same thread that
calls its continuation?
I.e. why does there need to be a special "main thread"? Can't "picking
up a job blocking on touch" just be another task allocated to the
thread pool?
Rubbish diagram:
Thread A Thread B
-------- --------
Creates a future F ...
... Starts computing F
Touches F ...
Starts computing future G ...
... Finishes computing F
... Continues job that touched F
Is this not a plausible approach?
Peter
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Peter Brett <pe...@peter-b.co.uk>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
