Hmm - I'm unclear. I had the impression that if thread a *reads* ref "world" and thread b *alters* ref "world" that would cause one of them to retry... is that wrong? It probably doesn't matter to my code, but it'd be good to know.
- Korny On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > 2009/4/2 Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> > >> >> If I understand correctly, two threads calling do_something_to with >> different keys won't collide, as they read @world but don't change it. I'll >> get a collision if one thread changes @world and another changes an >> individual structure - but I guess that's necessary, as the change might >> have deleted the record with the key needed by the other thread. > > > I'm far from a specialist of these aspects of clojure, but I'm not sure > you're right when you say you will get a collision. I think you will not > have a collision, unless you call (ensure) on the world ? > > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
