What this book covers
Chapter 1, Performance by Design, classifies the various use cases with respect to performance, and analyzes how to interpret their performance aspects and needs.
Chapter 2, Clojure Abstractions, is a guided tour of various Clojure data structures, abstractions (persistent data structures, vars, macros, transducers, and so on), and their performance characteristics.
Chapter 3, Leaning on Java, discusses how to enhance performance by using Java interoperability and features from Clojure.
Chapter 4, Host Performance, discusses how the host stack impacts performance. Being a hosted language, Clojure has its performance directly related to the host.
Chapter 5, Concurrency, is an advanced chapter that discusses the concurrency and parallelism features in Clojure and JVM. Concurrency is an increasingly significant way to derive performance.
Chapter 6, Measuring Performance, covers various aspects of performance benchmarks and measuring other factors.
Chapter 7, Performance Optimization, discusses systematic steps that need to be taken in order to identify that the performance bottlenecks obtain good performance.
Chapter 8, Application Performance, discusses building applications for performance. This involves dealing with external subsystems and factors that impact the overall performance.
