Thank you Ben. Can we speculate on a go-off macro? Like in agents send / send-off to have go-off blocks executed by a cached thread pool executor?
Luca Il giorno giovedì 27 marzo 2014 16:01:16 UTC+1, Ben Mabey ha scritto: > > I asked Timothy Baldridge about this on IRC when the change was made > that added 42 and this was the reply I got: > > we're trying to strike a balance there, we don't want people to do IO > inside a go block, but if they have to we'd don't want it to totally stall > out. > > Here is the full conversation: > > http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2013-08-29.html#15:45a > > -Ben > > On 3/27/14, 8:55 AM, icamts wrote: > > Hi all, > quite a funny question. Thread pool size in core.async is twice the number > of processors plus 42. > > > https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/clojure/clojure/core/async/impl/exec/threadpool.clj > > > 42? The question is: > > 1) should it be 4 or 2? > 2) 42 is the response to life, universe and everything > 3) for some technical reason 42 is also a good minimum number for a thread > pool > > Luca > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
