On Jan 12, 10:21 am, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you have > highly-optimized, custom-designed numerical algorithms written in a > low-level language like C++, you will never be able to write a version > that is equally fast in a dynamic, virtual-machine language.
I wouldn't say "never"; clearly Clojure is a managed language, but one important selling point it has I think versus "language+toy VM" dynamic languages like Ruby and Python is that you can easily drop to a lower level with type hints, and in Java dropping to primitives is going down even farther. It doesn't seem hard to imagine that Hotspot could see through and unroll some "inner loop" functional Clojure code with type hints into something much like what a C/C++ compiler would produce. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
