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 -- -- 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.