Re: [BLOG] Understanding Meyvn

2020-09-10 Thread daniel szmulewicz
*Leiningen versus the Ants* tells the story of a settler determined to fight an oncoming invasion of soldier ants when all the odds are stacked against him. The short story regularly features in anthologies alongside Jack London's survival stories. It conveys the notion that nothing can stop a colo

Re: [BLOG] Understanding Meyvn

2020-09-10 Thread movie gique
I came across "Leiningen vs. the Ants" in a collection of short stories I have. Highly recommended! On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:44 AM Daniel Szmulewicz < daniel.szmulew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hope you'll enjoy reading my latest blog post on Meyvn, if only for the > historical tidbits around Clojur

Re: core.async buffers alternative backend

2020-09-10 Thread Alex Miller
I don't actually remember now, but it's possible that when core.async was created we were still trying to accommodate an older version of Java before some of those existed. That's not an issue now as we only need to support Java 1.8+. So, I don't know of any reason these wouldn't be an option.

core.async buffers alternative backend

2020-09-10 Thread dimitris
Hi folks, `LinkedList` is used as the underlying data-structure for all core.async buffers. However, looking closer reveals that what is really needed is a `Deque` (for its .addFirst/.removeLast methods). So naturally then it begs the question - why not `ArrayDeque` [1]? It should offer superi