wracer

Visualizes one of the coolest core.async features: alt!, by "selecting" on several HTTP GET and a timeout channels, and rendering the winner's stats and HTML response.

HTTP GETs are also async, and merely put their responses on a channel, which they then return.

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Here is the race (clojurescript):

(defn race [q]
  (let [t (timeout timeout-ms)
        start (now)]
    (go
      (alt! 
        (GET (str "/yahoo?q=" q))  ([v] (winner :.yahoo v (took start)))
        (GET (str "/bing?q=" q))   ([v] (winner :.bing v (took start)))
        (GET (str "/google?q=" q)) ([v] (winner :.google v (took start)))
        t                          ([v] (show-timeout timeout-ms))))))

Once a winner is determined or a timeout channel returns nil ("times out"), the response is rendered:

It of course has nothing to do with real world benchmarking of any kind, but it does serve as an interactive visual of "alt!" doing its magic.

usage / start the app

lein ring server

license

copyright © 2014 tolitius

distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.