Hi Ned, I think the medium-term strategy likely to yield good results is for someone to put together a story around ClojureScript + advanced mode + V8. I know a few people have played with this, but I am not sure if anyone has gone so far as to package it up for easy consumption.
Stu Stuart Halloway Clojure/core http://clojure.com > Hey everyone!, > > I know this is an old story. > > I've played with clojure, but the main thing that has kept me from > never looking back is the startup speed. "Hello world!" in Java takes > me .303s, but just "java -cp clojure-1.5.0-master-SNAPSHOT.jar" takes > 1.989s (sending C-d to close the repl even before it starts). > Searching around here, I've found -XX:+TieredCompilation knocks me > down to 1.581s and also > -Xbootclasspath/a:clojure-1.5.0-master-SNAPSHOT.jar all the way to > 0.938s. > > Incidentally, the same tricks with "Hello World" take me to 0.159s. > > Those were major improvements with very little cost; a huge win > (thanks clojure list!). Any further easy tips and tricks? I'd like > to get to the point where shell scripts aren't painful. It looks like > other major hints are nailgun, and never restarting the repl during > development. > > I took the liberty of printing some System.getCurrentMillis from > clojure.main. It looks like it takes me 0.666s to enter the > clojure.main main method, which I didn't entirely expect. There are > several static members of clojure.main that need to be initialized, > these members take ~.520s to initialize in total; almost all of this > is initializing `Var REQUIRE`. Presumably this is when most of the > clojure environment starts to get loaded? > > I'm just starting to look into clojure's jvm implementation; does > anyone have some pointers on how to get quickly up to speed with the > internals of clojure? > > Thanks!, > > -- Ned Ruggeri > -- 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
