I guess this post is mostly going to be a question, but one that could shape up to be a long open source project and contribution on my part, if it is warranted.
The Clojure community has been blessed with good language interoperability with Java, which has made it easy to use and wrap Java-libraries, which again I suspect is why Clojure is where it is today, a tool for professional development. This has also, to some extent, been a curse, as we've relied on libraries made for a different language, instead of "creating the world in our image", so to speak. I assume this is why core.async isn't as integrated in the Clojure ecosystem as I would like, because we already have libraries that works, and taking the time to make sure they scale well simply isn't worth it. So I thought I would re-invent the wheel a little, but it depends on my premise being correct. >From what I understand, core.async basically creates state machines, that are run on a threadpool. Once you do something that blocks (like IO), you are kinda ruining the idea behind core.async, which is efficient concurrency at a large scale. I also assume, that having more than one threadpool, isn't really what you want. You want core.async to have the only threadpool running, and you want to run most things as go-blocks. Today, way to many things block, like reading a file or reading from a database. Things that are async, mostly uses it's own threadpool. If I got this correctly, a standard web-app today will usually perform a blocking action for most DB-ops, requests will run in a http-server-specific threadpool, while agents or go-blocks has their own threadpool again. Would I be correct that a clojure web-server, would be more efficient (at scale) if DB-ops and general request handling, ran entirely as go-blocks on the core.async threadpool alone? I was thinking of creating a async.io library (core.async + NIO for file and socket ops), and after that perhaps create a socket-pool library before creating a core.async friendly SQL interface. Is there a point to this, or would I just be doing a lot of work for very little gain? Thanks! -- 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/d/optout.
