Hi Mikera, I don't have a whole lot of skin in this game as, unfortunately, I haven't run into any performance bottlenecks that I couldn't fix in a satisfying way whilst writing Clojure.
My impression, however, is that there are some people in the community who feel the performance limitations of some of Clojure's core design decisions. I've been following this discussion as it's going on and it seems like it's winding down in the same way I've watched many such discussions wind down in the past: "Can we please get an official word from Rich whether this would be worth someone's time?" That's usually where these things die. So have you considered writing up a more formal proposal, maybe with some very rough sketches of how you might envision implementing things, and actually sending it to Rich (or maybe at this point Alex Miller)? Ideally this wouldn't be something as time consuming as a full prototype but would be more than just some thoughts scratched out on mail. I think he basically doesn't read this list or visit IRC anymore and getting heard here on something like design directions for Clojure seems like a fool's errand. Anyway, I like being able to follow these discussions on the mailing list and I think the mailing list is still a good place to gauge interest and get some thoughts on design direction (Timothy's been doing a great job lately of bringing up edge cases that may not have been considered), but I think you'll probably never see an official word on Clojure here. Keep up the good work! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://blog.twonegatives.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail -- -- 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/groups/opt_out.
