Experiment #6: Enabling Host Performance Clojure provides excellent facilities for creating, composing and building on abstractions. Thanks to great interop support, it is easy and even idiomatic for performance sensitive code to fall back into host’s primary language. Dunaj offers additional and fully optional ways to embrace the host platform from the comfort of your favorite Lisp. This experiment is specific to the JVM host, and provides following enhancements:
- Improved support for arrays, providing array managers and an optional immutable collection facade on top of arrays - A dedicated namespace called dunaj.host.int that implements macros for working with int values without unnecessary promoting or boxing - More primitive types for function arguments and return values - Low level data containers for bulk data processing You can read more about this experiment at http://www.dunaj.org Best, Jozef On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 10:33:53 PM UTC+1, Jozef Wagner wrote: > > I'm happy to announce a project called Dunaj [1], which provides an > alternative core API for Clojure. Its main aim is to experimentally test > major additions to the language. > > Dunaj /ˈdunaɪ/ is a set of core language experiments aimed to improve > Clojure language and its core API. It deals with language features that > require changes across different parts of Clojure and which cannot be > evaluated in isolation. Dunaj aims to bring Clojure even more towards > simplicity, consistency and performance. > It is intended to be used by regular Clojure developers, either for > application or library development. > > Dunaj was created to test 10 experiments that bring significant changes to > the Clojure language. As there is a substantial number of additions and > changes, I want to try a bit unconventional approach here. Before I'll > release the actual library, I will introduce Dunaj's experiments in a > series of individual posts. Every part states the motivation behind the > experiment, introduces changes and additions to the language and > demonstrates its intended use. If you do not want to miss any of this, you > may want to register for a mailing list at [1] or follow @dunajproject at > Twitter. > > -- Jozef Wagner > > [1] http://www.dunaj.org/ > > -- 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.
