Re: Observations and questions regarding long-running, adaptable, transparent software

[Rich Hickey]

On Sep 17, 7:06 pm, "Raoul Duke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's an interesting idea, and something I tried, but the overhead was
> > too great.
>
> i know less than nothing here, of course, but... any way to make the
> default case of "nothing has changed" be somehow fast (enough), and
> only the "oh poop things got edited" have to go into slow-mo for a
> second to adjust?

Unfortunately not. If you want to see a consistent view of a set of
refs you must be in a transaction, and it's not workable to require
all fn calls be in transactions.

Rich
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