The JVM is very class-oriented. It is basically designed for Java, and corresponds pretty much to the things you can do in Java. Code belongs to methods which belong to classes, and calls are made using java method calling conventions. Data has to be stored in primitives, arrays, or objects; and arrays aren't particularly to-the-metal in Java anyway.
The Byte Code Verifier keeps what you do fairly simple - eg you can't just leave things in the stack and jump to another method. Even if you wanted to do anything a bit different, the performance of the JVM all comes from the assumptions made while executing the bytecodes at runtime. If you did anything very weird, you'd probably find that these optimizations didn't kick in. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Divyansh Prakash < divyanshprakas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why are Clojure features defined in terms of Java classes, instead of as > bytecode primitives? > For eg: Cons is a class containing two objects: first and rest. > Is this only to achieve Java interoperability, or is there more to it? > > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
