Task

Doing work in the background

task = Task.async(fn -> expensive_computation end)
do_something_else
result = Task.await(task)

Parallel processing

crawled_site = ["http://www.google.com", "http://www.stackoverflow.com"]
|> Enum.map(fn site -> Task.async(fn -> crawl(site) end) end)
|> Enum.map(&Task.await/1)

Syntax:

Task.async(fun)
Task.await(task)

Parameters:

Parameter	Details
fun	The function that should be executed in a separate process.
task	The task returned by `Task.async`.

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