Skip operation
Henry Jen
henry.jen at oracle.com
Tue Sep 18 09:21:01 PDT 2012
On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Henry,
>
> On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Henry Jen <henry.jen at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> The patch looks good.
>>
>> At beginning I thought it to be a 'step' operation, then realize it's a one-time skip operation.
>>
>> Does it make sense to have a step operation as well?
>
> Can you give an example?
>
countTo(10).step(1).sum() would be a sum of odd numbers.
Useful when doing sampling.
>
>> Both skip and serial probably be serial only.
>>
>
> It might be possible to implement limit/skip in parallel, although i admit to not currently knowing how :-)n , need to experiment. probably requires some way to cancel the creation of new F/J tasks and ones that are running.
Agree. Without a predictable split, it would be challenging to step in parallel. :)
Cheers,
Henry
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