If it all seems confusing, do not despair, there's two things that will handle the vast majority of the use cases you may have:
1) `future` - spawns a thread that runs the body of the future ( https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/future) 2) `atom` and `swap!` - Used to store data that needs to be shared between threads and updated concurrently (https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/atom) these are built on top of CAS, which itself is foundation upon which most of concurrent programming is built. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap) Those two primitives alone will handle 90% of the use cases you will run into as a new clojure developer. The rest of the stuff (agents, thread pools, refs, vars, cps/core.async) can all come in time, but you will use them much less often than threads and atoms. So read up on those two and feel free to come back with any questions you may have. Timothy On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Chris White <cwprog...@live.com> wrote: > I was doing some reading of code recently to help me get up to speed with > Clojure. One of the libraries I randomly came across dealt with parallelism > and I had a hard time following along with it. To try and wrap my head > around things I did a quick search and found this article: > > > http://www.thattommyhall.com/2014/02/24/concurrency-and-parallelism-in-clojure/ > > I'm not sure how authoritative this is based on my current experience, but > needless to say I was a bit overwhelmed. That said is there any sort of > introductory material that list members have used to help get them into how > Clojure deals with concurrency and parallelism? I also don't mind anything > that's not specifically using Clojure but will at least help me understand > the concepts behind how Clojure does it. Thanks again for any and all help! > > - Chris White (@cwgem) > > -- > 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. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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.
