send-via
- (send-via executor a f & args)
Dispatch an action to an agent. Returns the agent immediately. Subsequently, in a thread supplied by executor, the state of the agent will be set to the value of: (apply action-fn state-of-agent args)
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1 Example
;; "send" (FixedThreadPool) or "send-off" (CachedThreadPool) ;; covers most of the thread pooling strategies. ;; But in case you want a different one, use "send-via" to pass ;; a different pool, for example ForkJoin. (import '[java.util.concurrent Executors]) (def fj-pool (Executors/newWorkStealingPool)) (defn send-fj [^clojure.lang.Agent a f & args] (apply send-via fj-pool a f args)) (def a (agent 1)) (send-fj a inc) (await a) @a ;; 2