On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs <olaf.delg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the link! I didn't know that the Closure library contained an > arbitrary precision type, but should have expected it. > > When you speak of performance, do you mean the extra cost of checking > argument types for the arithmetic operators? I wonder if this could be > addressed by introducing alternate operators +', -' and *' as in Clojure, > make these support the additional numeric types and leave the existing > operators alone. This is certainly something that makes sense for me to do > in a library. > > In order to support the BigInt and Ratio literals, would I have to modify > the ClojureScript sources, or is it possible to extend emit-constant in > "user space"? > > Olaf
Sorry, forgot to follow up this. I haven't put any deep thought into it so I can offer no implementation guidance. I think it will be pretty challenging to get full Clojure JVM numeric semantics into ClojureScript w/o impacting performance. It can probably be done but requires both a comprehensive design and good implementation strategy. If someone wants to take it on ... great! 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
