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by relix 4789 days ago
I really like the general out-of-bound work feature, however I have a hard time imagining a use-case that is not garbage-collection, and that wouldn't be better solved by having a background worker process. Can anyone suggest some situations?
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In theory it can be used for any kind of work that cannot be (easily) passed to another process, and that would block all threads. Another use case that I can think of is generating garbage collection statistics. But perhaps the community can find more use cases, we made it general so that people can be creative. :)