The Clojure API describes these two functions as:
(send a f & args) - Dispatch an action to an agent. Returns the agent immediately. Subsequently, in a thread from a thread pool, the state of the agent will be set to the value of: (apply action-fn state-of-agent args)
and
(send-off a f & args) - Dispatch a potentially blocking action to an agent. Returns the agent immediately. Subsequently, in a separate thread, the state of the agent will be set to the value of: (apply action-fn state-of-agent args)
The only obvious difference is send-off should be used when an action may block. Can somebody explain this difference in functionality in greater detail?