Hi, for seminar talk at my university I have to prepare a demo program showing Clojure's concurrency features. I stumbled upon the ants demo presented in Rich Hickey's "Clojure Concurrency" talk ( http://blip.tv/file/812787 ) which I like very much. I began to port the program to Java to demonstrate how difficult it is to do the same job in Java.
Rich already said that is very hard to do that. For example, he states that you need to lock the whole world (all cells and ants) if you want to create a report with a consistent view of the program's state in a certain point of time. What does that mean in Java? Do we need a "global lock" for that? But then, I have to use the same global lock on all writing operations, too? This results in destroying all concurrency. So my question is: Has anybody tried to port the ants demo to Java? Any experiences? Thanks, Andi -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
