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Clojure Workers and Large Scale HTTP Fetching

• gruseom 16y ago
  Since Clojure has been designed for concurrency, why does the author have to resort to Java thread pools to solve this straightforwardly parallel problem?
  • mlni 16y ago
    Because clojure has a number of built-in ways to manage state in a multi-threaded program, but does not re-implement work queues as there are quite excellent implementations bundled with the JDK. Rich Hickey mentions this during his concurrency talk, if Im not mistaken.
• mark_l_watson 16y ago
  Good analysis of problems using Clojure agents for operations that can fail. Also, Mark McGranaghan's new clj-http project looks good (BTW, I had a slight problem with one of Mark's old projects over the weekend and he was helpful - good to see on open source projects).