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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

Project setup


While finding bottlenecks is essential to fixing performance problems in the code, there are several things one can do right from the start to ensure better performance.

Software versions

Usually, new software versions include bug fixes, new features, and performance improvements. Unless advised to the contrary, it is better to use newer versions. For development with Clojure, consider the following software versions:

  • JVM version: As of this writing, Java 8 (Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, Zulu) has been released as the latest stable production-ready version. It is not only stable, it also has better performance in several areas (especially concurrency) than the earlier versions. If you have a choice, choose Java 8 over the older versions of Java.

  • Clojure version: As of this writing, Clojure 1.7.0 is the latest stable version that has several performance improvements over the older versions. There are also new features (transducers, volatile) that can make your code perform better. Choose...

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