Hello, I'm somewhat new to concurrent programming.
I'm trying to solve the consumer-producer problem
<http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/control-flow/#tasks-aka-coroutines>,
making a another task to produce values and reading them in the main task.
But the problem is that I want to produce values continuously while the
main task does something else, for example:
solver = mytask() #returns immediately
while !done(solver)
#Do something that can take minutes
println(getsomething(solver)) #Print residual norm
end
So what is want from getsomething(solver) is the newest value and not the
next value. The only way I found to do this was spawning (which is
expensive) and using sleep() and a channel inside of the producer task, but
this can behave erratically if other tasks are running.
Is there a way to make all tasks in the scheduler to take turns? Without
having to make blocking calls on the main task, of course.
