Specific arities means dispatch on arity can happen at the full speed of the host w/o incurring the overhead of variable arity support. This issue applies to ClojureScript as well where functions are not backed by classes.
David On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Christian Romney <xmlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was reading the implementation of juxt and noticed it is defined > with 4 arities: > > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/clojure/core.clj#L2296 > > Am I right to infer this is for performance reasons? > Where can I read more about the performance implications of arity and > this sort of optimization? > > TIA. > > -- > 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 -- 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
