> As a major convenience over starting separate threads by hand I would > use "future". For each invocation future will run a given function on > a different thread. You can then either dereference each future which > will block until the function completes or ask if a future has > completed with "future-done?". (You can also see futures used in the > source of the pmap core function). > > See Sean Devlin's very helpful introduction to futures at: > http://vimeo.com/8320428 > > It is not clear to me from your description if the agent is just > aggregating data from the separate threads or is actually required for > the threads to coordinate as they run, in the latter case you are in > deeper water than I have swum in so far.
The threads coordinate as they run, and they might be informed that they're done before they actually complete all the work they might have had to do. I'm thinking that just plain java threads are the way to go. Thanks for the video link! -- 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
