At the risk of sounding pedantic, concurrency is not the same as parallelism. Multiple threads can be scheduled on a single core (and that's plenty useful). So, with the async stuff you mention, JavaScript already supports concurrency. ClojureScript has recently come to have particularly good support for it thanks to core.async.
As for parallelism, you can already do it with web workers. There are limitations, but you can still do very cool things with them, cf. the pedestal-app tutorial's web worker section: https://github.com/pedestal/app-tutorial/wiki/Parallel-Processing More thread-like (as opposed to process-like) models... Who knows. Here's hoping. Cheers, Michał On 13 July 2013 00:42, Alexander Gunnarson <alexandergunnar...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of Clojure's main selling points is the ability to implement concurrency > in a fairly straightforward way. I know that ClojureScript doesn't support > concurrency because JavaScript's VM doesn't support it. I mean, of course > you can try to get around that by doing crazy tricks with asynchronous event > loops and such, but really it only is simulating concurrency with no real > speed advantage. My question to everyone is, when do you all think that the > JavaScript VM will support concurrency? Will it ever support it? > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
