Comments on: Primitive types support for fns coming to a Clojure branch near you

By: cgrand

cgrand — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:31:51 +0000

@tonyl, the outer hint is for the return value.

By: tonyl

tonyl — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:10:53 +0000

I am liking this performance changes, but I am wondering why are there two ^long hints. The [^long n] is for the return type hint, but what does the one after fib means?

By: fnprog

fnprog — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:22:28 +0000

I never thought primitive types are something to blog about. I guess it is like Apple blogging about cut-and-paste. Hopefully Clojure will take off in a big way for items like macros.

By: DiG

DiG — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:02:08 +0000

This made my day. I’ve been writing some high performance code and this will be a huge help.

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