As an exercise, I'm trying to port a library that I originally wrote in C#. It's actually a Neural Network, so my imperative design was a pretty straightforward tree-like structure of nodes that could manipulate state. During my port to Clojure, I've been writing functions that take multiple arrays (typically "graph of outputs" and "graph of weights"). Then I remembered about structs, so I refactored my code to deal with a collection of structs "node". A node contains a vector of weights and an output. In this way, I am only passing around a single collection that can represent my whole neural network.
Now I'm running into the fact that I kind of need to update the structure. So what I've implemented is essentially, each time you calculate the network output - my code iterates over the list of structs and creates new ones with the "updated" values. Performance is something that people don't seem to talk about much with Clojure, but I'm kind of thinking my approach with structs might not be the best one. My question is, am I approaching this incorrectly? I've seen a lot of resources that deal with the syntax of Clojure but haven't found a good guide on actual application design. My usage of structures seems natural to me, but that makes me question it even more! For anyone interested, here is my code: https://www.refheap.com/87775 I'm going to open source the library after many many iterations to beautify it. I'm sure it's a bit too haphazard to make sense to right now... Thank you for your time! -SharpCoder -- 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.
