Reid, thank you. I think you answer half the question. You make a good point about giving the JVM a way to better optimize a hot path. I think you are right about that. But, given the large amount of repetition between "chain'-" and "chain-" I'm wondering why this wasn't done with a macro?
On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 2:08:47 AM UTC-4, Reid McKenzie wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Lawrence, > > This is just a theory, but in the interests of response time, the JVM > uses a large number of heuristics to determine what optimizations will > likely prove profitable. One of them is a budget for method size. I > would guess that lifting this code out into a separate fn made the JVM > see that it was optimizing a hot path between the main body and > several small but tightly related methods thus giving itself more > leeway to inline and optimize in ways that it would otherwise presume > are more expensive and not pursue. > > Reid > -- 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.
