[Swift-devel] Functional building blocks as concurrency patterns

[Ben Clifford]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Ian Foster wrote:

> Regarding nondeterminism--do we have use cases for this?

In the past someone (Tibi?) has considered running a large number of some 
process, but rather than waiting for them all to complete, instead when 
some number less than the total have been completed, passing those on to 
the next step for processing.

I don't know what the actual application for that was, though.

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