On Aug 4, 8:02 am, Mark Addleman <mark_addle...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > I think there may be a somewhat straightforward solution to improving > Clojure's performance when passing primitives between functions. > Here's my understanding of the problem: The IFn interface is a series > of invoke method signatures that take a number of java.lang.Objects as > parameters and returns a java.lang.Object. Primitives can't be passed > this way and it would be a silly explosion of code to create the > methods signatures in IFn that included primitives. The performance > characteristcs of "boxing" primitives relies on the JVM's performance > of allocating and deallocating objects.
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