On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Brent Millare <brent.mill...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey, > > Can you give a simple explanation how your methods would be faster > than multimethods. Does this mean your implementation uses protocols > underneath? How does multimethods work? How many branches? > > -Brent > There's quite a bit of overhead in the current implementation of multimethods: - dispatch fn - in order to deal w/ complex matches dispatch fn must construct a collection - this collection is looked up in map - if not found check to see that if it's been memoized - if not memoized check to figure out if it matches an entry in the map - when found memoize In the implementation I'm proposing we only do the following: - literal matches are dealt with case - instance? or custom predicate matches done w/ if David -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
