Re: Extending Clojure's STM with external transactions

2008-12-09 Thread Razvan Ludvig
Cool stuff, Dave. I'm interested to see/test it, could you post it as an attachment to this group or commit it to contrib ? Cheers, Razvan. On Dec 8, 9:08 pm, Dave Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, hacking complete.  I've got a patch that extends the Clojure STM > so that it will ma

Re: Extending Clojure's STM with external transactions

2008-12-04 Thread Razvan Ludvig
Hi Dave. I think your proposal would be useful to have in Clojure, I have thought about something similar since I read about the STM. But I also think there are quite a few difficulties in implementing this in a "sane" way. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it seems that the goal of ST

Re: Distributed concurrent applications in Clojure?

2008-11-28 Thread Razvan Ludvig
@dokondr: the blackboard mechanism you mention is just a distributed associative memory, and there is already a Java specification for such a system (search for Jini and Javaspaces), with several open source and commercial implementations available. Unfortunately, anyone who has ever worked with s