On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > On Aug 4, 8:02 am, Mark Addleman <mark_addle...@bigfoot.com> wrote: >> I think there may be a somewhat straightforward solution to improving >> Clojure's performance when passing primitives between functions. >> Here's my understanding of the problem: The IFn interface is a >> series >> of invoke method signatures that take a number of java.lang.Objects >> as >> parameters and returns a java.lang.Object. Primitives can't be >> passed >> this way and it would be a silly explosion of code to create the >> methods signatures in IFn that included primitives. The performance >> characteristcs of "boxing" primitives relies on the JVM's performance >> of allocating and deallocating objects. > > What's meant by "boxing"? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoboxing#Autoboxing - Chas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
