Re: Clojure talk at TSS

2009-03-23 Thread Mark Engelberg
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > If you have a long running process that continually modifies a > collection and retains the new version ... does the new version retain > the old version?  For how long? In general, I think it's safe to assume that anything in the old v

Clojure talk at TSS

2009-03-23 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
I had a good time presenting an overview of Clojure at this years TheServerSide Java Symposium. A few questions from the crowd (of about 15 attendees) that I couldn't accurately respond to: 1) What prevents thread starvation when using (dosync) and ref's? It seems to me that conflicting transac