PMpmjordan·Apr 12, 2011
There's also Saturnine, https://github.com/texodus/saturnine though I haven't tried it yet.
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saturnine
Asynchronous server application framework for Clojure, based on JBoss Netty
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Asynchronous server application framework for Clojure, based on JBoss Netty
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesFrom everything I've read Netty looks like a champ compared to all other NIO servers. :-)
So, I'm quite excited to have found the answer to my question, AND someone has already started a clojure/netty project:
http://github.com/texodus/saturnine
Check out these comparisons of Netty vs others:
http://gleamynode.net/articles/2232/
http://amix.dk/blog/post/19456
http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/07/scalable-nio...
http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/09/scalable-nio...
http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/13/scalable-nio...
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