是否应该通过Javascript使用setInterval，或者使用一些基于线程的惯用解决方案？
答案 0 :(得分：8)
使用setInterval提出some challenges以及Alexander，Erik和Luite自己的评论让我尝试线程。这无缝地工作，代码非常干净，类似于以下内容：
import Control.Concurrent( forkIO, threadDelay )
import Control.Monad( forever )
... within an IO block
threadId <- forkIO $ forever $ do
threadDelay (60 * 1000 * 1000) -- one minute in microseconds, not milliseconds like in Javascript!
doWhateverYouLikeHere
Haskell具有轻量级线程的概念，因此这是以异步方式运行操作的惯用Haskell方式，就像使用Javascript setInterval或setTimeout一样。
答案 1 :(得分：4)
如果您不关心动机，只需滚动到我下面的最佳解决方案runPeriodicallyConstantDrift。如果您更喜欢结果较差的简单解决方案，请参阅runPeriodicallySmallDrift
我的答案不是针对GHCJS的，并且尚未在GHCJS上进行过测试，只有GHC，但它说明了the OP's naive solution的问题。
runPeriodicallyBigDrift 以下是我的OP解决方案版本，供以下比较：
import Control.Concurrent ( threadDelay )
import Control.Monad ( forever )
-- | Run @action@ every @period@ seconds.
runPeriodicallyBigDrift :: Double -> IO () -> IO ()
runPeriodicallyBigDrift period action = forever $ do
action
threadDelay (round $ period * 10 ** 6)
假设“定期执行一个动作”意味着每个周期开始动作很多秒， OP的解决方案有问题，因为threadDelay没有考虑时间行动本身需要。经过n次迭代后，动作的开始时间至少会减少运行动作n次所需的时间！
runPeriodicallySmallDrift 因此，如果我们真的想在每个时段开始一个新动作，我们需要考虑动作运行所需的时间。如果周期与生成线程所需的时间相比相对较大，那么这个简单的解决方案可能适合您：
import Control.Concurrent ( threadDelay )
import Control.Concurrent.Async ( async, link )
import Control.Monad ( forever )
-- | Run @action@ every @period@ seconds.
runPeriodicallySmallDrift :: Double -> IO () -> IO ()
runPeriodicallySmallDrift period action = forever $ do
-- We reraise any errors raised by the action, but
-- we don't check that the action actually finished within one
-- period. If the action takes longer than one period, then
-- multiple actions will run concurrently.
link =<< async action
threadDelay (round $ period * 10 ** 6)
在我的实验中（下面有更多详细信息），在我的系统上生成一个线程需要大约0.001秒，因此在n次迭代后runPeriodicallySmallDrift的漂移大约是千分之一秒，这可能是微不足道的。一些用例。
runPeriodicallyConstantDrift 最后，假设我们只需要恒定漂移，这意味着漂移总是小于某个常数，并且不会随着周期动作的迭代次数而增长。我们可以通过跟踪自开始以来的总时间来实现持续漂移，并在总时间为n次的时间段内开始n次迭代：
import Control.Concurrent ( threadDelay )
import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX ( getPOSIXTime )
import Text.Printf ( printf )
-- | Run @action@ every @period@ seconds.
runPeriodicallyConstantDrift :: Double -> IO () -> IO ()
runPeriodicallyConstantDrift period action = do
start <- getPOSIXTime
go start 1
where
go start iteration = do
action
now <- getPOSIXTime
-- Current time.
let elapsed = realToFrac $ now - start
-- Time at which to run action again.
let target = iteration * period
-- How long until target time.
let delay = target - elapsed
-- Fail loudly if the action takes longer than one period. For
-- some use cases it may be OK for the action to take longer
-- than one period, in which case remove this check.
when (delay < 0 ) $ do
let msg = printf "runPeriodically: action took longer than one period: delay = %f, target = %f, elapsed = %f"
delay target elapsed
error msg
threadDelay (round $ delay * microsecondsInSecond)
go start (iteration + 1)
microsecondsInSecond = 10 ** 6
根据以下实验，漂移总是大约1/1000秒，与行动的迭代次数无关。
为了比较这些解决方案，我们创建了一个动作来跟踪它自己的漂移并告诉我们，并在上面的每个runPeriodically*实现中运行它：
import Control.Concurrent ( threadDelay )
import Data.IORef ( newIORef, readIORef, writeIORef )
import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX ( getPOSIXTime )
import Text.Printf ( printf )
-- | Use a @runPeriodically@ implementation to run an action
-- periodically with period @period@. The action takes
-- (approximately) @runtime@ seconds to run.
testRunPeriodically :: (Double -> IO () -> IO ()) -> Double -> Double -> IO ()
testRunPeriodically runPeriodically runtime period = do
iterationRef <- newIORef 0
start <- getPOSIXTime
startRef <- newIORef start
runPeriodically period $ action startRef iterationRef
where
action startRef iterationRef = do
now <- getPOSIXTime
start <- readIORef startRef
iteration <- readIORef iterationRef
writeIORef iterationRef (iteration + 1)
let drift = (iteration * period) - (realToFrac $ now - start)
printf "test: iteration = %.0f, drift = %f\n" iteration drift
threadDelay (round $ runtime * 10**6)
以下是测试结果。在每种情况下，测试运行0.05秒的动作，并使用两倍的时间，即0.1秒。
对于runPeriodicallyBigDrift，n次迭代后的漂移大约是单次迭代的运行时间的n倍，如预期的那样。在100次迭代之后，漂移为-5.15，并且仅从动作的运行时间预测的漂移是-5.00：
ghci> testRunPeriodically runPeriodicallyBigDrift 0.05 0.1
...
test: iteration = 98, drift = -5.045410253
test: iteration = 99, drift = -5.096661091
test: iteration = 100, drift = -5.148137684
test: iteration = 101, drift = -5.199764033999999
test: iteration = 102, drift = -5.250980596
...
对于runPeriodicallySmallDrift，n次迭代后的漂移约为0.001秒，可能是在我的系统上产生线程所需的时间：
ghci> testRunPeriodically runPeriodicallySmallDrift 0.05 0.1
...
test: iteration = 98, drift = -0.08820333399999924
test: iteration = 99, drift = -0.08908210599999933
test: iteration = 100, drift = -0.09006684400000076
test: iteration = 101, drift = -0.09110764399999915
test: iteration = 102, drift = -0.09227584299999947
...
对于runPeriodicallyConstantDrift，漂移在大约0.001秒内保持不变（加上噪声）：
ghci> testRunPeriodically runPeriodicallyConstantDrift 0.05 0.1
...
test: iteration = 98, drift = -0.0009586619999986112
test: iteration = 99, drift = -0.0011010979999994674
test: iteration = 100, drift = -0.0011610369999992542
test: iteration = 101, drift = -0.0004908619999977049
test: iteration = 102, drift = -0.0009897379999994627
...
如果我们关注恒定漂移的水平，那么更复杂的解决方案可以跟踪平均恒定漂移并对其进行调整。
在实践中，我意识到我的一些循环具有从一次迭代传递到下一次迭代的状态。以下是runPeriodicallyConstantDrift的略微概括，以支持：
import Control.Concurrent ( threadDelay )
import Data.IORef ( newIORef, readIORef, writeIORef )
import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX ( getPOSIXTime )
import Text.Printf ( printf )
-- | Run a stateful @action@ every @period@ seconds.
--
-- Achieves uniformly bounded drift (i.e. independent of the number of
-- iterations of the action) of about 0.001 seconds,
runPeriodicallyWithState :: Double -> st -> (st -> IO st) -> IO ()
runPeriodicallyWithState period st0 action = do
start <- getPOSIXTime
go start 1 st0
where
go start iteration st = do
st' <- action st
now <- getPOSIXTime
let elapsed = realToFrac $ now - start
let target = iteration * period
let delay = target - elapsed
-- Warn if the action takes longer than one period. Originally I
-- was failing in this case, but in my use case we sometimes,
-- but very infrequently, take longer than the period, and I
-- don't actually want to crash in that case.
when (delay < 0 ) $ do
printf "WARNING: runPeriodically: action took longer than one period: delay = %f, target = %f, elapsed = %f"
delay target elapsed
threadDelay (round $ delay * microsecondsInSecond)
go start (iteration + 1) st'
microsecondsInSecond = 10 ** 6
-- | Run a stateless @action@ every @period@ seconds.
--
-- Achieves uniformly bounded drift (i.e. independent of the number of
-- iterations of the action) of about 0.001 seconds,
runPeriodically :: Double -> IO () -> IO ()
runPeriodically period action =
runPeriodicallyWithState period () (const action)