Re: Examples of concurrent coproc usage?

[Carl Edquist]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024, Chet Ramey wrote:

> You might be surprised. The OP was sending thousands of calculations to 
> (I think) GNU bc, which had some resource consumption issue that 
> resulted in it eventually hanging, unresponsive. The kill was the 
> solution there. I imagine there are similar scenarios with other tools.

Ok, you got me!  I take it back.

I hadn't considered bc operations being cpu/memory intensive.  But that 
possibility makes sense - given that it's arbitrary precision I guess you 
can ask for a number to the billionth power and never see the end of it  :)

Carl