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Suspensions.
This is only going to work on OCaml 5.x.
NOTE: this is not stable for now.
(Private) suspending tasks using Effects.
This module is an implementation detail of Moonpool and should not be used outside of it, except by experts to implement Runner.
A suspended computation
The handler that knows what to do with the suspended computation.
The handler is given two things:
- the suspended computation (which can be resumed with a result eventually);
- a
runfunction that can be used to start tasks to perform some computation.
This means that a fork-join primitive, for example, can use a single call to suspend to:
- suspend the caller until the fork-join is done
- use
runto start all the tasks. Typicallyrunis called multiple times, which is where the "fork" part comes from. Each call torunpotentially runs in parallel with the other calls. The calls must coordinate so that, once they are all done, the suspended caller is resumed with the aggregated result of the computation.
type Stdlib.Effect.t += | Suspend : suspension_handler -> unit Stdlib.Effect.t(*The effect used to suspend the current thread and pass it, suspended, to the handler. The handler will ensure that the suspension is resumed later once some computation has been done.
*)
val suspend : suspension_handler -> unitsuspend h jumps back to the nearest with_suspend and calls h.handle with the current continuation k and a task runner function.
val with_suspend :
run:(with_handler:bool -> task -> unit) ->
(unit -> unit) ->
unitwith_suspend ~run f runs f() in an environment where suspend will work. If f() suspends with suspension handler h, this calls h ~run k where k is the suspension.
This will not do anything on OCaml 4.x.