Schedule jobs to run at a time in the future.
The underlying implementation uses a heap of events, one for each job that needs to run in the future. The Async scheduler is responsible for waking up at the right time to run the jobs.
run_at time f a
runs f a
as soon as possible after time
. If time
is in the
past, then run_at
will immediately schedule a job t that will run f a
. In no
situation will run_at
actually call f
itself. The call to f
will always be in
another job.
run_after
is like run_at
, except that one specifies a time span rather than an
absolute time.
at time
returns a deferred d
that will become determined as soon as possible after
time
after
is like at
, except that one specifies a time span rather than an absolute
time.
If you set up a lot of after
events at the beginning of your program they will
trigger at the same time. Use Time.Span.randomize
to even that out.
with_timeout span d
does pretty much what one would expect. Note that at the point
of checking if d
is determined and the timeout has expired, the resulting deferred
will be determined with `Result
. In other words, since there is an inherent race
between d
and the timeout, preference is given to d
.
Events provide abortable versions of at
and after
.
at_varying_intervals f ?stop
returns a stream whose next element becomes determined
by calling f ()
and waiting for that amount of time, and then looping to determine
subsequent elements. The stream will end after stop
becomes determined.
at_intervals interval ?start ?stop
returns a stream whose elements will become
determined at nonnegative integer multiples of interval
after the start
time,
until stop
becomes determined:
start + 0 * interval start + 1 * interval start + 2 * interval start + 3 * interval ...
If the interval is too small or the CPU is too loaded, at_intervals
will skip
until the next upcoming multiple of interval
after start.
every' ?start ?stop span f
runs f()
every span
amount of time starting when
start
becomes determined and stopping when stop
becomes determined. every
waits
until the result of f()
becomes determined before waiting for the next span
.
It is guaranteed that if stop
becomes determined, even during evaluation of f
,
then f
will not be called again by a subsequent iteration of the loop.
It is an error for span
to be nonpositive.
Exceptions raised by f
are always sent to monitor in effect when every'
was
called, even with ~continue_on_error:true
.
run_at_intervals' ?start ?stop span f
runs f()
at increments of start + i * span
for non-negative integers i
, until stop
becomes determined. run_at_intervals'
waits for the result of f
to become determined before waiting for the next interval.
Exceptions raised by f
are always sent to monitor in effect when run_at_intervals'
was called, even with ~continue_on_error:true
.
run_at_intervals ?start ?stop ?continue_on_error span f
is equivalent to:
run_at_intervals' ?start ?stop ?continue_on_error span
(fun () -> f (); Deferred.unit)