Re: Clojure performance on Android

2015-09-23 Thread Roger Keays

Okay, thanks. Looks like I will have to do some experimenting to get the 
setup I want...

On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 3:02:01 AM UTC+2, Ben Brinckerhoff 
wrote:
>
> On my team, we tried using RoboVM to compile Clojure to iOS. It worked 
> fine once it booted, but startup time was a concern. We didn't spend a lot 
> of time optimizing it though. We also found the compile/boot cycle to be 
> quite long (over 50s to see a change). My understanding (perhaps mistaken) 
> is RoboVM must compile all code before boot, so live-loading code via a 
> REPL won't work.
>
> We switched to using Clojurescript/React Native and it's been a net 
> positive for us so far, even though we had to rewrite some internal 
> libraries for CLJS. We had a REPL briefly (Ambly, although we've recently 
> had to drop support for it due to breaking changes from React Native 
> upgrades) and our compile/boot cycle is about 20s.
>
> My coworker Chris Vermilion created these slides about our experience 
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v=forums=MTUyOTIzOTE0MjU1MDA0MDI3NjQBMTExMTI3MjYwMjc1OTc4MDg3MzQBXzVfV0tNdUZDQUFKATAuMQEBdjI
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ben
>
> On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:51:04 PM UTC-7, Roger Keays wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for giving the world Clojure. It's already made my life better 
>> just by applying the idioms to my Java code (e.g. 
>> http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/java-with-no-design-patterns).
>>
>> I'm starting on a new project soon and would like to use Clojure, however 
>> in my experiments so far performance seems to be a bit of a problem. Since 
>> the project will target mobile devices performance is pretty important 
>> (especially startup time).
>>
>> To be honest, even for the server I'm a little deterred by the stats I've 
>> seen online of Clojure vs Java performance. I can always just write Java in 
>> a functional style and embed beanshell for a REPL.
>>
>> So I guess it would be good to hear from the community how things have 
>> worked out for them performance-wise, and especially on Android/iOS.
>>
>> Also, are there any known showstoppers compiling Clojure bytecode to iOS 
>> using RoboVM?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>

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Re: Clojure performance on Android

2015-09-22 Thread Ben Brinckerhoff
On my team, we tried using RoboVM to compile Clojure to iOS. It worked fine 
once it booted, but startup time was a concern. We didn't spend a lot of 
time optimizing it though. We also found the compile/boot cycle to be quite 
long (over 50s to see a change). My understanding (perhaps mistaken) is 
RoboVM must compile all code before boot, so live-loading code via a REPL 
won't work.

We switched to using Clojurescript/React Native and it's been a net 
positive for us so far, even though we had to rewrite some internal 
libraries for CLJS. We had a REPL briefly (Ambly, although we've recently 
had to drop support for it due to breaking changes from React Native 
upgrades) and our compile/boot cycle is about 20s.

My coworker Chris Vermilion created these slides about our 
experience 
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v=forums=MTUyOTIzOTE0MjU1MDA0MDI3NjQBMTExMTI3MjYwMjc1OTc4MDg3MzQBXzVfV0tNdUZDQUFKATAuMQEBdjI

Hope that helps,
Ben

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:51:04 PM UTC-7, Roger Keays wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for giving the world Clojure. It's already made my life better just 
> by applying the idioms to my Java code (e.g. 
> http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/java-with-no-design-patterns).
>
> I'm starting on a new project soon and would like to use Clojure, however 
> in my experiments so far performance seems to be a bit of a problem. Since 
> the project will target mobile devices performance is pretty important 
> (especially startup time).
>
> To be honest, even for the server I'm a little deterred by the stats I've 
> seen online of Clojure vs Java performance. I can always just write Java in 
> a functional style and embed beanshell for a REPL.
>
> So I guess it would be good to hear from the community how things have 
> worked out for them performance-wise, and especially on Android/iOS.
>
> Also, are there any known showstoppers compiling Clojure bytecode to iOS 
> using RoboVM?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roger
>
>
>

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Clojure performance on Android

2015-09-22 Thread Roger Keays
Hi all,

Thanks for giving the world Clojure. It's already made my life better just 
by applying the idioms to my Java code (e.g. 
http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/java-with-no-design-patterns).

I'm starting on a new project soon and would like to use Clojure, however 
in my experiments so far performance seems to be a bit of a problem. Since 
the project will target mobile devices performance is pretty important 
(especially startup time).

To be honest, even for the server I'm a little deterred by the stats I've 
seen online of Clojure vs Java performance. I can always just write Java in 
a functional style and embed beanshell for a REPL.

So I guess it would be good to hear from the community how things have 
worked out for them performance-wise, and especially on Android/iOS.

Also, are there any known showstoppers compiling Clojure bytecode to iOS 
using RoboVM?

Thanks in advance,

Roger


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