On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Ivan Sagalaev <man...@softwaremaniacs.org>wrote:
> 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? The java.nio.channels package. :) -- 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
