Good morning!

I have never heard of today’s random core function of the day:

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clojure.core/->VecNode
([edit arr])
  Positional factory function for class clojure.core.VecNode.

seems to exist to support

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clojure.core/vector-of
([t] [t & elements])
  Creates a new vector of a single primitive type t, where t is one
  of :int :long :float :double :byte :short :char or :boolean. The
  resulting vector complies with the interface of vectors in general,
  but stores the values unboxed internally.

  Optionally takes one or more elements to populate the vector.

Morning Back to the grind stone today.

morning

That is interesting

månmån

morning

morning all

Morning.

lo

I thought we agreed that abuse was only dished out on a Thursday?

It's groundhog Thursday for anyone named Jade 😉

For all perpetuity

and then they all jump in...

from a distance it looks like you are cosplaying someone w/a BFG in a FPS

nah, he's fighting off the evil dead with a chainsaw @otfrom

oooooh.

@yogidevbear @otfrom You're both gonna need bigger shovels for the amount of emoji digging you're doing.

Where is this avi?

Aaah, it was the profile pic. Fair enough. I thought there was another one somewhere

Hmm, from the fading on my keyboard my most used keys are a, s, e and l. I wonder why...

I mean, a and e yes. But s and l?

What is that @jasonbell? It's got more than strings. It doesn't look like a sitar

@yogidevbear It's a Chapman Stick, ten strings.

I've never heard of a Chapman Stick before... TIL

Depending on your musical tastes you might have heard it.

I'm sure @jasonbell will agree it sounds best when it is accompanying my singing.

I think Jade's silence said it all.....

You play a Chapman Stick? Very cool!

my initial mental image was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChapStick … I’m glad for the photo XD

@seancorfield have done since 1993

that's what Thread is for?

it's go loops that aren't for that isn't it?

oh, it was the right thing to do in the absence of any decent & maintained nio lib for clojure... it's the lack of that lib which i'm feeling, but i really don't have any time to look at it

I feel like I'm missing something, why is using Thread wrong? 😛

it's my async-zealot viewpoint that Threads are for mapping to hardware threads and not for everyday use 🙉

Does NIO map to hardware threads?

You should write a clojure-centric blog about being perfectly-threaded, I'd read that

i don't really know the java NIO api, but it looks like you can specify the j.u.c.ExecutorService ops get run on

which is similar to other non-blocking things i've worked with

anyway, we allocate almost no Threads in our system - all our i/o for db, http etc is all async, mostly netty-based via aleph and datastax/java-driver - the only area where we have some blocking stuff is InputStreams and file i/o

I'm still a bit confused though, you don't allocate a thread, but if it's async, isn't there a thread waiting to do work?

yes - there are pools of threads, but they never block... it's blocking that feels dirty