On Jun 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Toralf Wittner wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:22 -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote: >> If the actions are executed serially, what is the benefit of having >> multiple threads per agent? > > There is none. Did anybody say there are multiple threads per agent? > There are two thread pools shared by all agents - a cached thread pool > where actions enqueued via send-off go into and a fixed thread pool > for > actions enqueued via send. The actions of all agents are submitted to > these two pools and all together run interleaved in different threads. > However at a given point in time there is only one thread for a given > Agent. And an agent's actions run one after another.
This makes more sense, actually. For some reason I thought each agent got its own thread pool. However, I still feel like I am not understanding when agents should be used or what an appropriate use of them would constitute, though. — Daniel Lyons http://www.storytotell.org -- Tell It! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
