Wouldn't this be simpler with pmap, e.g. http://gist.github.com/399269

although to be honest I don't really know how the automatically
parallelized clojure functions decide how many threads to use.  Is the
JVM smart enough to only create as many system-level threads as make
sense on my hardware?

Best -- Eric

Nurullah Akkaya <nurul...@nakkaya.com> writes:

> Since you don't need coordination or keep some sort of state, IMHO
> future is better suited for this.
> Following gist is my take, it first reads the file that contains the
> list of URLs to be downloaded then splits the list into number of
> thread pieces. Each future object gets a piece of the list and start
> processing in its own thread. Each URL is written to disk using a
> UUID.
>
> http://gist.github.com/399127
>
> Cheers...
> --
> Nurullah Akkaya
> http://nakkaya.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM, nickikt <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hallo all,
>>
>> A friend of mine ask if there is a smart way to get the html code of
>> couple thousand links but with a script, it takes for ever since it
>> always has  takes a couple of seconds to get the connection.
>>
>> I needs to be multi threaded so we can use all of the download rate.
>> So I sad I could try it with clojure but I am pretty new in clojure
>> and java (almost through the Programming Clojure book but nothing
>> practical) and thought i just ask here instead of trying to copy some
>> java code in clojure and hack something bad.
>>
>> My idea would be to span a agent for every dump and control that there
>> won't be more then a 10-20  threads. And dump it into a file.
>>
>> How would you implement this?
>> A function that does all of it in a agent and control it with a
>> counter from a other function?
>>
>> Is there a clojure way to write a file or should I use the java way?
>> Same for reading a file.
>>
>> Here is some javacode that does part of what I want. Is there a better
>> way then proxy all of it?
>>
>> url = new URL("random page");
>> URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
>> DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream ( conn.getInputStream
>> (  )  ) ;
>> BufferedReader d = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
>> while(d.ready())
>> {
>>        System.out.println( d.readLine());
>> }
>>
>> Just that this prints to console instead of a file.
>>
>> So tanks for reading. I'm working on it any tip or suggestion would
>> help.

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