Sounds like that could be useful for gracefully degrading media players. Playback lags due to CPU contention or whatever, drop a frame to keep the audio and video and clock-time roughly in proper sync. Things like that.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Philip Potter <philip.g.pot...@gmail.com>wrote: > I can suggest one, though I haven't used it for real so can't speak for > all the design tradeoffs: > > (alts! [[out val] (timeout N)]) > > will attempt to write to a consumer, but if the consumer is swamped, will > drop the message on the floor and move on. (I can imagine rewriting this > using alt! so that if the timeout is taken, you can log that you've dropped > something.) This is pretty similar to Sean's use-case, just with a put > instead of a take. > > > On 9 September 2013 03:21, Alan Shaw <noden...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm accustomed to using alts! to allow taking from a collection of >> core.async ports, but haven't come up with a use case for a put in alts!, >> either with or without takes. >> Have you? >> >> -A >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
