On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 15, 12:12 pm, Alyssa Kwan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In your example, my-generator isn't the concern.  It's the call to my-
>> generator that creates functions, each of which creates bytecode, is
>> loaded as a class, then is instantiated, and finally invoked.
>
> Not true. Compiling my-generator creates two classes, which at run
> time are simply instantiated as needed.

I thought so. Now if your code has stuff like:

(defn foo [x]
  (eval `(fn [quux] blah blah blah quux blah blah ~x blah)))

then every call to foo generates new classes and loads them at
runtime. Part of why eval should be used sparingly. :)

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