[erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP 20.0-rc2 is available for testing

[Ulf Wiger]

I like the ets:select_replace/2 function.

Of course, in the first case where I thought it might be useful, I ended up
wishing for an extended version. ;-)

https://github.com/uwiger/gproc/blob/master/src/gproc_pool.erl#L465

The 'claim' operation performs a chunked select of workers in a given pool,
and for each chunk of workers, tries to claim one by incrementing a counter
value - if the value went from 0 to 1, the claim succeeded.

A select_replace() function could handle the atomic claim operation, but
what I would want to do is to limit it to only one replace and to return
the resulting object - not just the count. This could potentially be
supported by a select_replace/3 function.

As far as I can recall, gproc_pool is competitive in terms of performance.
Such an extended select_replace() function _should_ give a significant
speedup, especially in the case of large busy pools (which possibly haven't
been benchmarked.)

BR,
Ulf W

2017-05-31 19:16 GMT+01:00 Kenneth Lundin <kenneth@REDACTED>:

> OTP 20 Release Candidate 2
>
> This is the second of two release candidates before the OTP 20 release.
> [...]
>
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