Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Clojure
compiler can produce bytecode equivalent to compiled Java code.

I think the right approach would be to figure out how to do this in
Clojure for the cases like this.

Rich?

Boris

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:25 PM, tmountain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the helpful advice. I may consider rewriting key
> portions in Java if performance becomes an issue.
>
> Travis
>
> On May 14, 12:10 pm, David Nolen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you're going to do that you're going to need to create a let binding
>> which type-hints coll to bytes in your byte-array-contains? If you're going
>> to be doing this a lot in your code I'd recommend making a helper class in
>> Java. loop/recur is fast, but for absolute speed, you just can't beat
>> putting your tight loops in Java.
>>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, tmountain <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > NM, huge difference in performance even with the cast.
>>
>> > Old version:
>>
>> > (time (dotimes [_ 1000] (byte-array-contains? header 0xFE)))
>> > "Elapsed time: 337.312 msecs"
>>
>> > New version:
>>
>> > (time (dotimes [_ 1000] (byte-array-contains? header 0xFE)))
>> > "Elapsed time: 4.278 msecs"
>>
>> > On that note, is there a native way to check whether a byte array
>> > contains a given value? The contains? function seems to indicate
>> > whether a given index exists in the array rather than inspecting the
>> > actual value? My best stab at the moment is as follows:
>>
>> > (defn byte-array-contains? [coll key]
>> >  "scans a byte array for a given value"
>> >  (loop [i 0]
>> >    (if (< i (count coll))
>> >      (if (== (int (byte key)) (int (byte (aget coll i))))
>> >        true
>> >        (recur (inc i))))))
>>
>> > Travis
>>
>> > On May 14, 11:40 am, tmountain <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > If that's the case, would I even get a performance increase, or would
>> > > the cast overhead cost more than the implicit reflection?
>>
>> > > On May 14, 11:32 am, David Nolen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > This baffled me as well. You need to cast to int.
>>
>> > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, tmountain <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > > > > I'm trying to optimize some code I've written, and I have set warn on
>> > > > > reflection as advised. I'm having a hard time getting a simple
>> > > > > statement to avoid reflection.
>>
>> > > > > user=> (== (byte 0x1) (byte 0x1))
>> > > > > Reflection warning, line: 33 - call to equiv can't be resolved.
>>
>> > > > > Can you use type hints on primitive types? I've tried obvious stuff
>> > > > > like:
>>
>> > > > > user=> (== #^byte (byte 0x1) #^byte (byte 0x1))
>> > > > > Reflection warning, line: 4 - call to equiv can't be resolved.
>>
>> > > > > and other variations without success.
>>
>> > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > > Travis
> >
>

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