In this mail I'm talking about Clojure 1.4, however, I believe that the 
issue persists in later versions, too.

I have quite a lot of code of the following form:

(defprotocol sum-proto
  (sum [x y]))

(deftype Pair
    [^long a ^long b]
  sum-proto
  (sum [x y]
    (let [^Pair y y
          new-a (+ (.a x) (.a y))
          new-b (+ (.b x) (.b y))]
      (Pair. new-a new-b))))

In real code there are *a lot* of implementations in that deftype generated 
by macroses. The problem is that compilation time skyrocketed. Right now 
I'm facing 5-10 seconds of compilation, which makes incremental development 
very painful. Profiler shows that the overwhelming majority of this time is 
spent here: [1]. It follows that the problem is in that ^Pair annotation: 
when symbol is tagged by a symbol, it should be resolved as a class. It 
should be way faster if I can "cache" that resolution, but I can't given 
that those implementation are inside of deftype, I can't resolve in advance 
the class that isn't defined. And I can't use extend-type either because of 
the cost of extra var lookup.

The main question is: what can I do to make compilation faster? 
Pre-resolving that class won't work, it seems.

[1]: 
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L986

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