Hello! I'm looking at Clojure for a couple of days, having watched two of Rich's video presentations. So I'm not yet familiar with Clojure's practical patterns but I can read the code :-).
My question is how to model a non-blocking I/O. For example I want to request a URL over HTTP and do something with its content. I don't want to block on waiting for network. In my current working language Python I can setup a non-blocking socket and a callback that will take care of parsing response in suitable small chunks. This would happen without occupying additional threads because I/O is a task dumb enough to be left for TCP/IP stack in the kernel. As I gathered from the talk on Clojure concurrency all asynchronous task are done using agents that are processed with threads. So it looks like to read from a socket asynchronously I have to do it with agents that will may be poll the socket in a loop. But it seems silly. What am I missing then? -- 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
