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Go Concurrency Patterns ported to Clojure

by olenhad on 9/16/13, 2:07 PM with 21 comments

• by _halgari on 9/16/13, 2:23 PM

  Using Thread/sleep inside of a go block is questionable. Using >!! and <!! inside a go block is simply wrong. Please switch to <! and >! and if you aren't simulating actual work, remove Thread/sleep. Failing to do so can seriously mess with the core.async thread pool.

  Doing blocking operations inside a go is a anti-pattern.

• by danneu on 9/16/13, 8:49 PM

  Haha, I had a double-take when I clicked the link.

  I didn't mean to misrepresent core.async. I just heard about it one day and got compelled enough by a walkthrough[1] to convince myself I could figure enough of it out to make something happen in my nrepl buffer. Which happens to also describe my approach to life now that I think about it. Except, you know, in my life buffer.

  [1]: https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/examples/w...