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I remember Rich Hickey recommending this approach in a talk.

Matthew Gilliard
– Matthew Gilliard

2013-09-13 12:56:56 +00:00
Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 12:56
So what kind of applications are Clojure's own concurrency solutions suited for ? most of the applications will have one or more job queues to be processed in parallel.

Amogh Talpallikar
– Amogh Talpallikar

2013-09-13 13:39:35 +00:00
Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 13:39
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In the book "Clojure Programming", they show an example of a parallel, agent-based program which does just this: it uses a LinkedBlockingQueue to keep track of work which needs to be processed. As the agents process tasks, some of the tasks result in pushing more new tasks on the queue.

Alex D
– Alex D

2013-09-13 14:45:52 +00:00
Commented Sep 13, 2013 at 14:45

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