Poison pill

Course: core.async Patterns

Updated October 25, 2019

If you need finer control over which workers die, you could implement the poison pill pattern. In this one, a special value is considered to be a signal to die.

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Start latch

When you need many go blocks to start work at very close to the same time, you can use a start latch. This pattern preps go blocks and signals them to start with the same channel.