Feature #17327
closedThe Queue constructor should take an initial set of items
Description
I often create a Queue
and then process it with a set of concurrent workers in threads. I end up writing:
q = Queue.new
worklist.each do |work|
q.push work
end
I'd rather be able to write
q = Queue.new(*worklist)
Updated by chrisseaton (Chris Seaton) almost 4 years ago
Updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams) almost 4 years ago
What about a way to bulk add items, e.g. q.concat
or whatever is the same for Array, and maybe it would be best to have the first argument as an array, e.g. Queue.new(worklist)
? I think it's more expensive to expand it in CRuby when you write *worklist
.
Internally, this might still be adding one item at a time, in order to invoke the right "wakeup" machinery.
Updated by chrisseaton (Chris Seaton) almost 4 years ago
I'm not worried about Queue.new(worklist)
or Queue.new(*worklist)
, so that's fine if more people feel that way. I think the key thing is conciseness in text source code, and also avoiding needing to synchronise while adding each individual item.
Updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams) almost 4 years ago
That all makes sense to me.
Updated by byroot (Jean Boussier) almost 4 years ago
I agree that the constructor should take an enumerable rather than variadic arguments, as it would be consistent with Set.new([1, 2, 3])
, and Array.new([1, 2, 3])
Updated by ufuk (Ufuk Kayserilioglu) almost 4 years ago
Agreed with @byroot (Jean Boussier) (actually I was going to note the same, he beat me to it).
I would also like to note that different from Set
, for example, the order of items in the supplied parameter matters in the Queue
case. Even though the expected outcome is for the items to be push
ed to the Queue
in given order, it might still be a good idea to explicitly call that out in the method documentation.
Updated by chrisseaton (Chris Seaton) almost 4 years ago
I updated to take a single array rather than a variable number of arguments.
I had two choices for how to do this - Set
takes an Enumerable
, using each
to access items, and Array
takes another Array
, using #to_ary
if needed.
I went with the same as what Array
does, because both Array
and Queue
are core libraries, where Set
is a standard library.
Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) over 3 years ago
I accept the idea. Take Enumerable
as initial values.
Matz.
Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) over 3 years ago
- Assignee set to ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 3 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Closed
Applied in changeset git|1f0e0dfb228fd14b3f6687539ba274ba6a2d1643.
Thread::Queue.new should accept an Enumerable [Feature #17327]
Enumerable implements #to_a but not #to_array.