Re: agent questions - DOS - asynchrony - protection

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Lehr
Thanks. See reponses inline. On Jun 10, 6:22 am, Toralf Wittner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Robert Lehr wrote: e in your system. > > > Q - What stops Clojure's agent send-off function from becoming a DOS > > ("denial of service") vulnerability in

Re: agent questions - DOS - asynchrony - protection

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Lehr
en't read the source code to it so   > perhaps any mistakes I make are representative of newbie pitfalls in   > general or possibly even oversights in the documentation. Perhaps some   > of those more in-the-know can illuminate us both. > > On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Robert Le

agent questions - DOS - asynchrony - protection

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Lehr
STUPID QUESTION TIME and another long post - sorry. Q - What stops Clojure's agent send-off function from becoming a DOS ("denial of service") vulnerability in a server? This possibility occurred to me after reading several source files. * Stuart Sierra's HTTP client code in clojure-contri

"Programming Clojure",

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Lehr
I am familiarizing myself w/ Clojure with Stuart Holloway's book, "Programming Clojure". A great introduction to Clojure - very helpful. ASIDE - this actually makes me wonder...are add'l books about Clojure currently being written? If nobody else knows, RH probably would. While reading the "Pr

Re: performance concerns (again)

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Lehr
Thanks for the replies. This post is moderately long as it includes responses to most of the replies. Before I reply to replies, I will quickly describe some add'l data that I obtained from further tests. I was lead to a line of investigation by the description at the following URL: http:/

performance concerns (again)

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Lehr
First, Clojure has renewed my interest in Java, specifically the JVM and the plethora of available libraries. Clojure and Scala are the kind of projects that inspire peoples' imaginations in a world that they might otherwise overlook. Thank you, Rich Hickey. However, I have some concerns that f