For those wondering like me what "Direct Linking" is, here are a few links I could find. This seems to be a very old possible improvement to Clojure which is being looked at again.
http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Build+Profiles https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clojure-dev/guT3QBEg5w0/9deJ5E0AW9sJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clojure-dev/guT3QBEg5w0/e6m0RZ0yk4gJ On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 10:51:18 AM UTC+12, Alex Miller wrote: > > Clojure 1.8.0-alpha3 is now available. > > Try it via > - Download: > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.8.0-alpha3 > - Leiningen: [org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0-alpha3"] > > Tuples have been disabled after further analysis of performance impacts. > > This alpha has initial support for direct linking which you can enable > with -Dclojure.compiler.direct-linking=true > > Direct linking allows functions compiled with direct linking on to make > direct static method calls to most other functions, instead of going > through the var and the Fn object. This can enable further optimization by > the jit, at a cost in dynamism. In particular, directly-linked calls will > not see redefinitions. > > In alpha3, clojure.core is compiled with direct linking by default and > therefore other namespaces cannot redefine core fns and have those > redefinitions seen by core code. > > Functions declared as dynamic will never be linked to directly. > > As with all alphas, this represents ongoing work-in-progress that is > subject to change. > -- 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/d/optout.
