Clojure 1.7.0-alpha5 is now available. Try it via - Download: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.7.0-alpha5/ - Leiningen: [org.clojure/clojure "1.7.0-alpha5"]
A few of the highlights in alpha5: 1) New transducer arities for map-indexed, distinct, and interpose. The transducer versions are generally faster than the sequence versions. See CLJ-1601 for more details. 2) The set and vec functions should now be faster in many cases. Some of the vec improvements will not kick in until CLJ-1499 is committed in the future. See CLJ-1546 and CLJ-1618 for more details. 3) Two particularly troublesome AOT classloading bugs have been addressed - CLJ-979 and CLJ-1544. Many other tickets were found to be duplicates of one of these as well. Big thanks to Nicola Mometto for doing the hard work on debugging and providing fixes for these. For all changes new in alpha5, see the issues marked "(alpha5)" in the full changes below. ------------------------------------------------------------ Clojure 1.7.0-alpha5 has the changes below from 1.6.0: ## 1 New and Improved Features ### 1.1 Transducers Transducers is a new way to decouple algorithmic transformations from their application in different contexts. Transducers are functions that transform reducing functions to build up a "recipe" for transformation. Also see: http://clojure.org/transducers Many existing sequence functions now have a new arity (one fewer argument than before). This arity will return a transducer that represents the same logic but is independent of lazy sequence processing. Functions included are: * conj (conjs to []) * map * mapcat * filter * remove * take * take-while * drop * drop-while * cycle * take-nth * replace * partition-by * partition-all * keep * keep-indexed * map-indexed (alpha5) * distinct (alpha5) * interpose (alpha5) Additionally some new transducer functions have been added: * cat - concatenates the contents of each input * de-dupe - removes consecutive duplicated values * random-sample - returns items from coll with random probability And this function can be used to make completing transforms: * completing There are also several new or modified functions that can be used to apply transducers in different ways: * sequence - takes a transformation and a coll and produces a lazy seq * transduce - reduce with a transformation (eager) * eduction - returns a reducible/seqable/iterable seq of applications of the transducer to items in coll. Applications are re-performed with every reduce/seq/iterator. * run! - run the transformation for side effects on the collection There have been a number of internal changes to support transducers: * volatiles - there are a new set of functions (volatile!, vswap!, vreset!, volatile?) to create and use volatile "boxes" to hold state in stateful transducers. Volatiles are faster than atoms but give up atomicity guarantees so should only be used with thread isolation. * array iterators - added support for iterators over arrays Some related issues addressed during development: * [CLJ-1511](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1511) * [CLJ-1497](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1497) * [CLJ-1549](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1549) * [CLJ-1537](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1537) * [CLJ-1554](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1554) * [CLJ-1601](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1601) (alpha5) * [CLJ-1606](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1606) (alpha5) * [CLJ-1621](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1621) (alpha5) * [CLJ-1600](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1600) (alpha5) ### 1.2 Keyword and Symbol Construction In response to issues raised in [CLJ-1439]( http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1439), several changes have been made in symbol and keyword construction: 1) The main bottleneck in construction of symbols (which also occurs inside keywords) was interning of the name and namespace strings. This interning has been removed, resulting in a performance increase. 2) Keywords are cached and keyword construction includes a cache check. A change was made to only clear the cache reference queue when there is a cache miss. ### 1.3 Warn on Boxed Math One source of performance issues is the (unintended) use of arithmetic operations on boxed numbers. To make detecting the presence of boxed math easier, a warning will now be emitted about boxed math if \*unchecked-math* is set to :warn-on-boxed (any truthy value will enable unchecked-math, only this specific value enables the warning). Example use: user> (defn plus-2 [x] (+ x 2)) ;; no warning, but boxed #'user/plus-2 user> (set! *unchecked-math* :warn-on-boxed) true user> (defn plus-2 [x] (+ x 2)) ;; now we see a warning Boxed math warning, NO_SOURCE_PATH:10:18 - call: public static java.lang.Number clojure.lang.Numbers.unchecked_add(java.lang.Object,long). #'user/plus-2 user> (defn plus-2 [^long x] (+ x 2)) ;; use a hint to avoid boxing #'user/plus-2 * [CLJ-1325](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1325) * [CLJ-1535](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1535) ### 1.4 update - like update-in for first level `update` is a new function that is like update-in specifically for first-level keys: (update m k f args...) Example use: user> (update {:a 1} :a inc) {:a 2} user> (update {:a 1} :a + 2) {:a 3} user> (update {} :a identity) ;; missing returns nil {:a nil} * [CLJ-1251](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1251) ## 2 Enhancements ### 2.1 Error messages * [CLJ-1261](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1261) Invalid defrecord results in exception attributed to consuming ns instead of defrecord ns * [CLJ-1169](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1169) Report line,column, and source in defmacro errors * [CLJ-1297](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1297) Give more specific hint if namespace with "-" not found to check file uses "_" ### 2.2 Documentation strings * [CLJ-1417](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1417) clojure.java.io/input-stream has incorrect docstring * [CLJ-1357](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1357) Fix typo in gen-class doc-string * [CLJ-1479](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1479) Fix typo in filterv example * [CLJ-1480](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1480) Fix typo in defmulti docstring * [CLJ-1477](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1477) Fix typo in deftype docstring * [CLJ-1478](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1378) Fix typo in clojure.main usage ### 2.3 Performance * [CLJ-1430](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1430) Improve performance of partial with more unrolling * [CLJ-1384](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1384) clojure.core/set should use transients for better performance * [CLJ-1429](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1429) Cache unknown multimethod value default dispatch * [CLJ-1529](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1529) Reduce compile times by avoiding unnecessary calls to Class.forName() * [CLJ-1546](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1546) (alpha5) vec is now faster on almost all inputs * [CLJ-1618](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1618) (alpha5) set is now faster on almost all inputs ### 2.4 Other enhancements * [CLJ-1191](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1191) Improve apropos to show some indication of namespace of symbols found * [CLJ-1378](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1378) Hints don't work with #() form of function * [CLJ-1498](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1498) Removes owner-thread check from transients - this check was preventing some valid usage of transients in core.async where a transient is created on one thread and then used again in another pooled thread (while still maintaining thread isolation). * [CLJ-803](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-803) Extracted IAtom interface implemented by Atom. * [CLJ-1315](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1315) Don't initialize classes when importing them * [CLJ-1330](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1330) Class name clash between top-level functions and defn'ed ones * [CLJ-1349](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1349) Update to latest test.generative and add dependency on test.check * [CLJ-1546](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1546) (alpha5) vec now works with things that only implement Iterable or IReduceInit * [CLJ-1618](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1618) (alpha5) set now works with things that only implement Iterable or IReduceInit * [CLJ-1633](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1633) (alpha5) PersistentList/creator doesn't handle ArraySeqs correctly ## 3 Bug Fixes * [CLJ-1362](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1362) Reduce broken on some primitive vectors * [CLJ-1388](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1388) Equality bug on records created with nested calls to map->record * [CLJ-1274](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1274) Unable to set compiler options via system properties except for AOT compilation * [CLJ-1241](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1241) NPE when AOTing overrided clojure.core functions * [CLJ-1185](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1185) reductions does not check for reduced value * [CLJ-1039](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1039) Using def with metadata {:type :anything} throws ClassCastException during printing * [CLJ-887](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-887) Error when calling primitive functions with destructuring in the arg vector * [CLJ-823](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-823) Piping seque into seque can deadlock * [CLJ-738](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-738) <= is incorrect when args include Double/NaN * [CLJ-1408](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1408) Make cached string value of Keyword and Symbol transient * [CLJ-1466](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1466) clojure.core/bean should implement Iterable * [CLJ-1578](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1578) Make refer of Clojure core function not throw exception on reload * [CLJ-1501](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1501) LazySeq equals() should not use equiv() logic * [CLJ-1572](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1572) (alpha5) into (and other fns that rely on reduce) require only IReduceInit * [CLJ-1619](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1619) (alpha5) PersistentVector now directly implements reduce without init * [CLJ-1580](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1580) (alpha5) Transient collections should guarantee thread visibility * [CLJ-1590](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1590) (alpha5) Some IReduce/IReduceInit implementors don't respect reduced * [CLJ-979](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-979) (alpha5) Clojure resolves to wrong deftype classes when AOT compiling or reloading * [CLJ-1544](http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1544) (alpha5) AOT bug involving namespaces loaded before AOT compilation started -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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