[Swift-user] Re: Swift app question

[jon.monette at gmail.com]

Yes. This is the general work flow to part of my problem
------Original Message------
From: Mihael Hategan
To: Jonathan Monette
Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
Cc: Justin M Wozniak
Subject: Re: Swift app question
Sent: Sep 8, 2010 7:51 PM

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 18:45 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> Hello,
>      This is probably a simple question but when are app functions 
> executed?  Take a look at this psuedocode.
> 
> 
> foreach y in years
> {
>          Month m1< "month1.txt">;
>          Month m2 <"month2.txt">;
> 
>          Year y = calculate( m1, m2 );
> }
> 
> When will the app "calculate" be executed?  Will it execute as soon as 
> m1 and m2 for a given iteration are mapped or will it wait till each 
> thread has mapped its own m1 and m2 and execute the apps all together.

Is the use of y twice (once in the foreach and once for the result of
calculate()) accidental?

Mihael



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