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Is there any way to throttle an arbitrary function?

I am currently writing my functions to run for N iterations before calling them again, but it would be much more convenient and consistent to be able to pass my functions off to a handler/scheduler and have them take care of them for me. This is an example of what I am trying to do:

Code:

local thread

local delay

local count = 0



local queue = function()

        for a = 1, 10000000 do

                count = a

        end

end



C_Timer.NewTicker(0, function()

        if queue then

                if not thread then

                        thread = coroutine.create(function()

                                delay = C_Timer.NewTicker(0, function()

                                        print(count)

                                        

                                        if coroutine.status(thread) == "dead" then

                                                queue = nil

                                                thread = nil

                                                delay:Cancel()

                                        else

                                                coroutine.yield()

                                        end

                                end)

                                

                                queue()

                        end)

                end

                

                coroutine.resume(thread)

        end

end)

I was trying to pass my functions to the variable 'queue' and have them turned into coroutines that would be yielded every frame. However it seems that C_Timer.NewTicker doesn't run asynchronously, so it never gets to yield the coroutine.

Is there any way to do what I am trying to do? It seems strange to me that I can't come up with a clean way to throttle my functions. Thanks for your help.

To yield every frame you have to call yield inside the loop not after the loop is finished

yield only yields the current coroutine not another one (which wouldn't be possible given the lua interpreter in wow is single threaded, which you can be thankful for otherwise we'd have locking issues)

I have a lib named Scorpio, it has a task schedule system works like:

Lua Code:

Scorpio "TestAddon" "1.0.0"
 
-- __Async__ is used to wrap the target function, so when the 
-- function is called, it'd be processed in a coroutine, the coroutine
-- will be recycled when the target function finished its job
__Async__() 
function LoopJob()
    while true do
        NextEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_DISABLED")  -- wait the event
 
        print("Start combat")
 
       local cnt = 0
 
        repeat
            Delay(1)    -- delay for 1 sec
            cnt = cnt + 1
            print("[Combat]", cnt)
        until not InCombatLockdown()
 
        print("End combat")
    end
end
 
-- Start the loop
LoopJob()

With the system, we can avoid the callback hell and keep any logic in one function. And the better part of the system is if we put all hard works to it, it really can smooth the function calls(delay the call if there is too much operations in one phase) and make the fps no dropping.

So, if you are interesting, you can find the lib at https://github.com/kurapica/Scorpio, it's also uploaded to the curseforge.

For your example, you may check the Next and Continue API provided by the Scoprio, the Next is used to delay the process to the next phase, the Continue is used to check if there is enough time in the current phase to continue the process, otherwise, it'd delay it to the next phase.