On Monday 22 June 2009 12:01:19 Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Java threads, according to the documentation: > > clojure.core/future > ([& body]) > Macro > Takes a body of expressions and yields a future object that will > invoke the body in another thread, and will cache the result and > return it on all subsequent calls to deref/@. If the computation has > not yet finished, calls to deref/@ will block. > > The macro future is used in the implementation of pmap.
If that is spawning a new thread every time a future is created then it is really for concurrent programming rather than parallel programming. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
