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Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition

You're reading from   Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition Become an expert at writing fast and high performant code in Clojure 1.7.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283642
Length 198 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shantanu Kumar Shantanu Kumar
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Preface 1. Performance by Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Clojure Abstractions 3. Leaning on Java 4. Host Performance 5. Concurrency 6. Measuring Performance 7. Performance Optimization 8. Application Performance Index

Clojure parallelization and the JVM


We observed in Chapter 1, Performance by Design that parallelism is a function of the hardware, whereas concurrency is a function of the software, assisted by the hardware support. Except for the algorithms that are purely sequential by nature, concurrency is the favored means to facilitate parallelism, and achieve better performance. Immutable and stateless data is a catalyst to concurrency, as there is no contention between threads, due to absence of mutable data.

Moore's law

In 1965, Intel's cofounder, Gordon Moore, made an observation that the number of transistors per square inch on Integrated Circuits doubles every 24 months. He also predicted that the trend would continue for 10 years, but in practice, it has continued till now, marking almost half a century. More transistors have resulted in more computing power. With a greater number of transistors in the same area, we need higher clock speed to transmit signals to all of the transistors. Secondly...

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