What is the issue with wrapping in Clojure interfaces? Added overhead of function calls?
I'm finding myself in the process of doing some of this, at least for constructors. Also thinking of generating predicates/generators for use with spec. On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:51:46 AM UTC-7, Zach Tellman wrote: > This is a slightly irregular announcement, because it's not for a Clojure > library. Rather, it's for a library written purely in Java: > https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan. > > This is a collection of mutable and immutable data structures, designed to > address some of my personal frustrations with what's available in the > Clojure and Java ecosystems. Notably, they have pluggable equality > semantics, so while they *can* use Clojure's expensive hash and equality > checks, they don't *have* to. They also provide high-performance mutable > variants of the data structure which share an API with their immutable > cousins. > > I'm posting it here to ask for people's thoughts on how, if at all, this > should be exposed as a Clojure library. It would be simple to simply wrap > them in the Clojure interfaces and make them behave identically to > Clojure's own data structures, but that kind of obviates the point. > However, creating an entirely new set of accessors means that we can't > leverage Clojure's standard library. > > It's possible that I'm alone in my frustrations, and no Clojure wrapper is > necessary. But if this does solve a problem you have, I'd like to hear > more about what it is, and how you think Bifurcan might help. Please feel > free to reply here, or to grab me at Clojure/West and talk about it there. > > Thanks in advance, > Zach > -- 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.
