On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> It just means I have to rethink my proselytizing strategy -- I was > definitely overselling the speed of the persistent data structures. > I agree, trying to sell persistent data structures on speed alone just doesn't make sense. Any talk about persistent data structures needs to be fairly holistic. But I think that most experienced programmers favor flexibility over micro benchmarks as long as flexibility doesn't come at an unreasonable cost. Because experience shows that, unexpectedly, the day will come where you'll want that simple KV store to support atomically adding and removing keys :) David -- 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