On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 10, 3:47 am, "Remco van 't Veer" <rwvtv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Rich, >> >> I've been working on getting clojure in a more usable state for android >> [1]. One of the challenges was to speedup startup time. A lot of >> time is spend in the lisp-reader because all constants are stored as >> lisp expressions. I've replace most of this code by a more direct >> approach; emitting calls to Symbol.intern, RT.var, RT.vector etc. >> These changes make loading core about 3 to 4 times faster. > > I am interested in this. The current constant serialization is just > the simplest thing to do, and had added utility for any text-based > transfer. I held off on binary/bytecode serialization because I hadn't > yet decided how to make that extensible. I guess it's not the worst > thing if the set of frequently used known types gets special handling > with the print-dup fallback. > >> Are you interested in this patch? Should I open an issue on the >> project site? > > Sure, thanks. It's important that the mechanism preserve the actual > types, so sections like this bit (in emitValue): > > if (value instanceof List) > > still need refinement.
I'll work on preserving the exact type for the common cases and will open an issue with patch when I got it working. Remco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
