On 10 February 2016 at 16:36, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: > Parallel loading is something I've looked at a little bit. Unfortunately > theory is easier in theory than in practice. :) While in many cases, it > probably works fine, it's possible for there to be problematic ambiguity > with which namespace is loaded first, especially for things that update > stateful things in the Clojure runtime (protocol extensions, multimethod > cases, namespaces, the dynamic classloader, etc). Perhaps you've heard that > mutable state and concurrency are problematic. :) I think it's been > interesting to see the issues that ClojureScript has found as they've > implemented parallel compilation as they are likely similar.
Yeah, I was thinking along these lines too – parallel loading of files could leave to non-deterministic compilation. -- 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/d/optout.
