Is there way to execute Timer timeouts immediately in the timer thread?

[Sergey S]

Hi Trustin,

it's great!

Thanks.


Trustin Lee wrote:
> 
> Hi Sergey,
> 
> HashedWheelTimer executes a TimerTask in its timer thread already.
> 
> HashedWheelTimer does not spawn a new thread for each timeout but
> creates one thread only in the beginning.  You should not create a new
> HashedWheelTimer for each new timeout.
> 
> HTH,
> Trustin
> 
> Sergey S wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> It looks like HashedWheelTimer doesn't support this. May be somebody
>> knows
>> workarounds or other timer implementation supporting this?
>> 
>> I need to synchronize processing of asynchronous timer and network
>> events.
>> In my current implementation timeout just places Runnable to single
>> thread
>> executor's queue. Spawing new thread on each timeout looks like useless
>> overhead imo.
>> 
>> Thanks.
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