Re: concurrent computation of a function

["Ruud H.G. van Tol" <rvtol@isolution.nl>]

On 2024-09-19 16:40, Max Alekseyev wrote:
> Suppose I have two functions func1(x) and func2(x) computing the same 
> entity, where depending on the input one may be much faster than the 
> other (or vice versa).
> For the same input x, I'd like to compute them in parallel and return 
> the result as soon as one of them completes, and terminate execution 
> of the other.
> Is there a way to achieve this in PARI/GP?
>
> PS. Here are possible solutions for SageMath/Python: 
> https://ask.sagemath.org/question/59480/

In some cases you could effectively use a "stopfile", or some other 
global resource.

Each variant then has to check for its existence-or-state, at key points 
in its iterations, and can then stop gracefully.

-- Ruud