Clojure Concurrency

A presentation by Rich Hickey to the Western Mass. Developers Group on Clojure and concurrency. Brief overview of Clojure, discussion of concurrency issues, locking, and immutabiity. In-depth look at Clojure's refs, transactions and agents. Demonstration and review of code for a multithreaded ant colony simulation.

Be sure to grab the slides and code in order to follow along.

Thanks to Shawn Fumo for working on this video.

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silverton said: 324 days ago

hmmm ... potential applications for massively scalable concurrent video conversation communities? think tokbox/seesmic/yahoo live in use by orders of magnitude larger numbers of people than 2009 norms.

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