On 12 June 2013 00:09, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Honestly I hadn't yet given it any thought. Thanks for the interest in > having it on Clojurescript. Here are a few issues that come to mind:
Given how *awesome* it would be for Instaparse to become cross-platform, I'm sure I'm not the only ClojureScript contributor who would gladly help out with any and all porting issues. I'll definitely be watching the GitHub ticket. Cheers, Michał > > 1. To achieve performance, I've spent time coding custom data structures > that implement various Clojure and Java interfaces. I haven't done much > with Clojurescript, but my impression is that the ecosystem of protocols is > completely different, so I imagine that could be a pain to transfer over. > > 2. I don't know much about the performance of Javascript/Clojurescript's > underlying data structures. For example, in Java, the substring operation > used to be O(1), but recently, much to my dismay, they changed it to O(n). > That change was annoying, and it means I'm going to have to rework some code > to deal with that, but at least I heard about it and can take it into > account. But in Javascript I don't even know the performance > characteristics of its strings and substring operation. What other > Javascript performance gotchas don't I know about? > > 3. I'm assuming that due to the above, it won't be as simple as just > recompiling the code for Clojurescript. I have no idea what's involved with > maintaining a code base for the two target languages simultaneously. Sounds > non-trivial, although maybe it won't seem so intimidating once things have > settled down and I'm not making quite so many performance tweaks and feature > enhancements to the code. > > In any case, please add your request as a github issue, so I don't forget > about it. > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:06 AM, JeremyS <jschoffen....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Puzzler, >> >> I was wondering if you planned to port Instaparse to ClojureScript. I know >> it's asking a lot, but I am one of those who would love >> to be able to run it in a browser or in node.js... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jeremys. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
