I have another question about concurrency in Elixir I hope someone can help me understand. I have been studying the Task module. I am reading the documentation for the Task.async_stream/5 Task — Elixir v1.20.2
but I am confused by the ordered option. I think I understand what it does – if it is false then tasks a, b, and c may be returned in some different order like b, c, a.
However, I am struggling to understand these sentences: “This option is useful when you have large streams and don’t want to buffer results before they are delivered. This is also useful when you’re using the tasks for side effects.”
Is that saying that using ordered: false is useful when you have large streams? And should I use ordered: false if I am only using the task for side effects?
I think that makes sense, but I do not trust my own understanding with this yet.
Thank you for clarifying!
