[Swift-devel] Functionality request: best effort execution

[Tiberiu Stef-Praun]

Hi Swift team

I am curious if there is a way of coding up (or having in the near
future) the following functionality:

(file output) applicationWrapper(file input){
   appOutput = runAtomicApplication(input);
   dummyOutput = runTimer ();

   if (Atomic Application Finished First){
      output = appOutput;
  } else {
     output = dummyOutput;
  }
}


I am not sure how to tell swift to stop waiting for the second task,
as soon as the first one has completed successfully.

Thank you
Tibi

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Tiberiu (Tibi) Stef-Praun, PhD
Computational Sciences Researcher
Computation Institute
5640 S. Ellis Ave, #405
University of Chicago
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~tiberius/