I looked into this a while back. Unfortunetly, Clojure really is designed to be run on a VM. It makes heavy use of the GC, reflection, and OOP.
> Clojure is a fantastic language (Although I have just scratched the > surface) and It would be "nice" to have it natively compiled. Why would it be nice? When I started working on clojure-cxx I thought it would be nice as well. But the fact remains, you gain so much from writing it on a VM, it would take a massive effort to port it to C++ or another machine language. And in the end, your "native" code really isn't going to be too much faster. You might get better memory performance, but I'm not convinced it's worth the effort. Even if you get all that straightened out, you still lack a good standard lib. This is what really killed the project for me. Read up on C++ linking sometime. Trying to get something like .JARs or .net assemblies working on a native level is a nightmare to say the least. If anyone has questions about the work I did, let me know, I'd be more than happy to expound on my findings. Timothy -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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
