If you are dispatching on types, use protocols. It's much faster.

Luc P


> I've experienced rewriting my ClojureScript code into multimethods
> base.
> I'd share my results.
> 
> Initially I implemented polymorphism behavior as simple hashmap like
> this:
> 
> (def parent
>     {:foo (fn [x] ...)
>      :bar (fn [x] ...)})
> (def child
>     (merge parent {:foo (fn [x] ...)}))
> 
> For some reason, I didn't choose protocols.
> Then I found multimethods support hierarchy system and rewrote the
> code into 42 defmulti and 64 defmethod.
> 
> After rewriting, I noticed that rewritten code is too slow as I can
> see a displaying delay without measurement.
> 
> Profiles in Chrome (Ignore first (program) line.)
> Simple hashmap approach:   http://twitpic.com/88wvyl
> Multimethods approach:        http://twitpic.com/88wwd8
> 
> So I put the code back.
> 
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