Is it possible to skip to the next loop on time limit?

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Thanks to you guys I have learned the method to kill the loop on the time limit.https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-would-i-stop-a-while-loop-after-n-amount-of-time/84299/2 but I am still wondering if there is any method to skip to the next loop on time limit?

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julia> time_start = time_ns()
       @time while true
           if time_ns() - time_start > 5e9
               break
           end
       end
  4.975468 seconds (23.11 M allocations: 352.

Does that work?

3

Here is a more elaborate example

julia> function f()
           time_start = time_ns()
           counter = 0
           while true
               if time_ns() - time_start > 5e9
                   break
               end
               counter += 1
          end
          return counter
       end
f (generic function with 1 method)

julia> @time f()
  5.000008 seconds
13306379

julia> @time f()
  5.000006 seconds
13317871
4

Well…it is still the method to kill the loop.
My question is, for a for loop, is there a way to conduct the continue function on some time limit so that it can skip to the next loop.

5

time_ns() - time_start may work! I would try that. thank you!

6 
julia> function f()
           f_start = time_ns()
           for i in 1:10
               iteration_start = time_ns()
               println("Loop iteration $i at $((time_ns() - f_start)/1e9)")
               t = @async sleep(i)
               status = timedwait(3) do
                   istaskdone(t)
               end
               println("Iteration $i status: $status")
           end
       end
f (generic function with 1 method)

julia> f()
Loop iteration 1 at 1.928e-6
Iteration 1 status: ok
Loop iteration 2 at 1.054216979
Iteration 2 status: ok
Loop iteration 3 at 3.071932343
Iteration 3 status: ok
Loop iteration 4 at 6.14614505
Iteration 4 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 5 at 9.244185518
Iteration 5 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 6 at 12.322501454
Iteration 6 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 7 at 15.40138489
Iteration 7 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 8 at 18.473001556
Iteration 8 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 9 at 21.479161034
Iteration 9 status: timed_out
Loop iteration 10 at 24.544645199
Iteration 10 status: timed_out
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7

I realized that if the loop needs to be terminated before a certain time, the function inside the loop is usually still running, which makes my request logically impossible. I will try to find another way to avoid this.
But still thank you for your code! Have learned much!