Thank you very much indeed!

On 05/08/2012 11:14 PM, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
> I've added some discussion about this behavior in an example for 
> clojure.core/future on ClojureDocs.org here:
> 
> http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/future
> 
> Since people often come across this behavior when using pmap or 
> clojure.java.shell/sh, which are implemented using Clojure futures, I've 
> added examples to those two functions that recommend reading the examples for 
> future.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On May 8, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
> 
>> Not desired, but currently normal behavior.
>>
>> This happens whenever certain concurrency features of Clojure are used, 
>> creating other threads, and they take a while for them to be cleaned up on 
>> exit.  Besides pmap, futures and a few other Clojure functions cause this.  
>> You can work around it if you call (shutdown-agents) before the end of your 
>> program.
>>
>> http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-124
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On May 7, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there!
>>>
>>> I only started learning Clojure today, so please forgive me if this is
>>> a stupid question or something..
>>>
>>> I am experimenting with Clojure's pmap operator as shown in the source
>>> here:
>>>   
>>> https://github.com/freizeit/exercises/blob/master/cj-a-store-credit/clojure/ex1.clj
>>>
>>> With line 14 (the exit() call) in place the program takes a second to
>>> run:
>>>
>>>   $ time clojure -m ex1 /etc/motd
>>>   #<LinkedBlockingQueue [110, 60]> /etc/motd
>>>
>>>   real      0m1.013s
>>>   user      0m1.284s
>>>   sys       0m0.032s
>>>
>>> With line 14 commented out or removed the program prints this part
>>> immediately:
>>>
>>>   $ time clojure -m ex1 /etc/motd
>>>   #<LinkedBlockingQueue [110, 60]> /etc/motd
>>>
>>> *but* the rest comes a minute later:
>>>
>>>   real      1m0.997s
>>>   user      0m1.336s
>>>   sys       0m0.080s
>>>
>>> Is this normal/desired behaviour? If not, can somebody please explain
>>> why this is happening? Thanks!
>>>
>>> FWIW, I am observing this with Clojure 1.3.0 on debian (LMDE [1]).
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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