long entails a call to RT/longCast, which dynamically dispatches on
the type of the object passed to it. I haven't tested this, but i
would imagine the java cast would compile directly to the single byte-
code instruction i2l. Presumably, then, the java call would be a touch
faster by a few instruc
Is the following clojure code:
(long (.some-method-that-returns-int this))
equivalent in semantics and performance to the following java code:
(long)some-method-that-returns-int();
I need to make type casts in an inner loop (hot zone), and I was
wondering if there was something implicit that ma