On Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:45:23 PM UTC-7, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote: > > > For setting a global timeout on an entire session, it's better to wrap > > the ``run_`` call with ``System.Timeout.timeout`` -- this is more > > efficient than testing the time on every chunk, and does not require a > > specialised enumerator. > It may be more efficient, but I don't really like it. I like robust > > applications, and to me killing a thread is always a mistake, even if > the thread is kill-safe. > ``timeout`` doesn't kill the thread, it just returns ``Nothing`` if the computation took longer than expected.
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