I have no gut feelings about implementation strategies :) On Sunday, August 12, 2012, dspiteself wrote:
> Just to get your gut feeling, do you think > the implementation would involve bittwittling with the native number, using > strings or using byte arrays? > > On Saturday, August 11, 2012 1:47:06 PM UTC-5, David Nolen wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs >> <olaf.d...@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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- 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