A dynamic single-use countdown latch.
Latches are typically used for determining when a finite set of parallel computations is done. If the size of the set is known a priori, then the latch can be initialized with the size as initial count and then each computation just decrements the latch.
If the size is unknown, i.e. it is determined dynamically, then a latch is initialized with a count of one, the a priori known computations are started and then the latch is decremented. When a computation is stsrted, the latch is incremented, and then decremented once the computation has finished.
val create : ?padded:bool -> int -> tcreate initial creates a new countdown latch with the specified initial count.
val try_decr : t -> booltry_decr latch attempts to decrement the count of the latch and returns true in case the count of the latch was greater than zero and false in case the count already was zero.
val decr : t -> unitdecr latch is equivalent to:
if not (try_decr latch) then
invalid_arg "zero count"val try_incr : t -> booltry_incr latch attempts to increment the count of the latch and returns true on success and false on failure, which means that the latch has already reached zero.
val incr : t -> unitincr latch is equivalent to:
if not (try_incr latch) then
invalid_arg "zero count"val await : t -> unitawait latch returns after the count of the latch has reached zero.
val await_evt : t -> unit Picos_std_event.Event.tawait_evt latch returns an event that can be committed to once the count of the latch has reached zero.