Let's say that, as part of an xf, I want to filter out everything in a 
sequence that's also in some other sequence. Here are some ways of doing 
that:

(defn filter-contains1 [edn-file] (remove (partial contains? (set 
(read-edn-file 
edn-file)))))

(defn filter-contains2 [coll] (remove (partial contains? (set coll))))

(def filter-contains3 [coll] (let [coll-as-set (set coll)] (remove (partial 
contains? (set coll)))))

I have the strong suspicion that `filter-contains3` is the best of the 3, 
and `filter-contains1` the worst. The internal mechanics of transduce are a 
bit of a mystery to me, however: if `filter-contains2` were to be used on a 
collection of, say, a million items, would `coll` be cast to a set a 
million times, or is Clojure/the JVM smarter than that? I'm also wondering 
if anyone has any "best practices" (or whatever) they can share relating to 
this kind of intersection of transducers/xfs and closures. It seems to me, 
for example, that something like

(defn my-thing [coll & stuff]
  (let [s (set coll)]
  ...
  (comp
    ...
   (map foo)
   (filter bar)
   (remove (partial contains? s))
   ...

is awkward, but that a lot of limited-use transducer factory functions 
(like the ones above) aren't exactly optimal, either.

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