I hate to see agents used this way. If people want a thread pool they should either use the ones provided by clojure, or create their own. Using agents when you want a thread pool smacks of ignorance.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor.html You can tell when you should be using a threadpool/futures instead agents when you don't use an agent as an identity over a series of values. On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Laurent PETIT <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Would it make sense to use instead promise/deliver, and enque computations > in order in agents queues ? (worse parallelism, but more control over the > number of threads ?) > > 2011/9/10 Illim <[email protected]> >> >> I'm a clojure beginner and from the future api , the only way I found >> to create a future from another is to block the resulting future's >> thread with 'deref'. I'm a little bit afraid of exhausting my thread >> pool. >> For example: >> (def x (future 1)) >> (def y (future (+ 1 @x))) >> y will block and consume a thread during x computation. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
