To quote Jozef "it can happen all in one thread". This is somewhat true, there are some rare situations where this can happen, but it is fairly rare.
Many times putting a value into a channel will mean that the callback on the other end of the channel needs to be dispatched. In that case Mauricio is correct, these callbacks are executed in a fixed sized thread pool. Timothy On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Mauricio Aldazosa < mauricio.aldaz...@ciencias.unam.mx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Jozef Wagner <jozef.wag...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> go blocks, together with >!, <!, alt!, etc... do not create any new >> threads and are not run in separate thread. There is no thread pool for go >> blocks. >> > > I thought that go blocks do run in a thread pool of size 42 + (2 * Num of > processors). In the definition of the go macro there is a > dispatch/run<https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/clojure/clojure/core/async.clj#L369>whose > docstring<https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/clojure/clojure/core/async/impl/dispatch.clj#L19>says > it uses a thread pool. > > Am I misunderstanding something? > > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that-lacking zero-they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
