Bear in mind that when going from the "slow" to the "fast", you not
only removed the repeated calls to to-array, but also removed the
overhead of words-with, since the lazy seq returned from the let
doesn't get fully realized.
Try changing your "fast" version to:
(def update-wlist #(let [w (doall (take 26 (words-with (current-
word))))]
(. words setListData wlistdata)))
My guess is it's not going to be fast anymore.
On Nov 25, 8:35 am, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a crossword editor that provides a list of suggestions to
> fill in the current word. This is displayed in a listbox to the right
> of the grid, and every time the cursor is moved, I update it via
>
> (def update-wlist #(let [w (take 26 (words-with (current-word)))]
> (. words setListData (to-array w))))
>
> This is slowing my UI down very badly - there is a noticeable lag
> between hitting a key and having the cursor move. The bottleneck seems
> to be to-array, since replacing it with
>
> (def update-wlist #(let [w (take 26 (words-with (current-word)))]
> (to-array w)))
>
> is still slow, but dropping down to
>
> (def wlistdata (to-array (take 26 (words-with "..............."))))
>
> (def update-wlist #(let [w (take 26 (words-with (current-word)))]
> (. words setListData wlistdata)))
>
> leaves everything running smoothly. Is there a more efficient way to do this?
>
> This is the definition of words-with:
>
> (def wordlist (split (slurp "csw.txt") #"\n"))
>
> (defn words-with [re]
> (filter #(re-matches (re-pattern re) %) wordlist))
>
> so if there's some equivalent that directly outputs a java array, that
> would likely solve my problem. I'm open to all suggestions, though.
>
> martin
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