CompletableFuture

[Sam Pullara]

I'm confused. The intent is that .then() is just a dependency and the blocks will be executed as soon as it is satisfied. Am I misunderstanding your concern?

Sam

On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:11 AM, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> Maybe this is getting a bit to abstract, but anecdotally speaking we have found that "do A then B" is "less good" than "do B when A is done", i.e. model the problem in terms of tasks and their dependencies rather than as a sequential chain of tasks to run in order.  It's just inherently cleaner and potentially more performant (any given task can execute as soon as its dependencies are satisfied; there are no artificial sequences imposed on tasks).  But, at the same time, that mode of thinking seems to be fairly incompatible with Future.
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