Idea: thread pool library

[lrz]

RubyMotion for iOS (and OS X) has the Dispatch module which wraps the libdispatch library, but RubyMotion for Android doesn't implement this module as the library doesn't exist there.

However, Android seems to offer a nice API to set up and use a thread pool: http://developer.android.com/training/multiple-threads/run-code.html http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor.html

I suggest we add in Flow a simple library for thread pool execution, and that is implemented using Dispatch for iOS and ThreadPoolExecutor for Android.

Thoughts?

[jjaffeux]

Agreed.

• we will need this to improve Bacon
• we will need this to improve Net
• Do you propose to follow Dispatch API ?
• We need a good strategy to test this lib, testing threaded lib code looks hard to me.

[lrz]

I think a new API would be better, as the Dispatch API is pretty big and we don't want to implement all of it (for Android), also a "simpler" API would probably be better for Flow. I will come up with an API draft.

[jjaffeux]

@MarkVillacampa do you want to work on it ?

[lrz]

Done