On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 12:11 pm, "Mark Volkmann" <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What is it that triggers the function passed to swap! to be retried? >> Is it that some other thread has modified the atom since swap! was >> invoked, but before the function passed to swap! returns? >> >> -- > > I think that's described pretty well here: > > http://clojure.org/atoms
Right. Somehow I had skipped over this part: "Since another thread may have changed the value in the intervening time, it may have to retry, and does so in a spin loop." Thanks! -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
