On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > > == is for numbers. > > That's correct. Now that "=" also handles numbers in an type-independent > way, do well still need "==" in Clojure? > Is it primarily a higher performance equality check when you know you're > dealing with numbers?
Yes. Using == instead of = when the arguments are guaranteed to be numbers can give you quite a bit of a performance boots if your loops are tight (according to a blog post I read the other day :p ) > --Steve > -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, Christian Vest Hansen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
