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Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition

Become an expert at writing fast and high performant code in Clojure 1.7.0

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Shantanu Kumar  
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|Sep 2025
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Become an expert at writing fast and high performant code in Clojure 1.7.0

Key Features

    Book Description

    Clojure treats code as data and has a macro system. It focuses on programming with immutable values and explicit progression-of-time constructs, which are intended to facilitate the development of more robust programs, particularly multithreaded ones. It is built with performance, pragmatism, and simplicity in mind. Like most general purpose languages, various Clojure features have different performance characteristics that one should know in order to write high performance code.
    This book shows you how to evaluate the performance implications of various Clojure abstractions, discover their underpinnings, and apply the right approach for optimum performance in real-world programs.
    It starts by helping you classify various use cases and the need for them with respect to performance and analysis of various performance aspects. You will also learn the performance vocabulary that experts use throughout the world and discover various Clojure data structures, abstractions, and their performance characteristics. Further, the book will guide you through enhancing performance by using Java interoperability and JVM-specific features from Clojure. It also highlights the importance of using the right concurrent data structure and Java concurrency abstractions.
    This book also sheds light on performance metrics for measuring, how to measure, and how to visualize and monitor the collected data. At the end of the book, you will learn to run a performance profiler, identify bottlenecks, tune performance, and refactor code to get a better performance.

    What you will learn

      Who this book is for

      This book is intended for intermediate Clojure developers who are looking to get a good grip on achieving optimum performance. Having a basic knowledge of Java would be helpful.

      Table of Contents

      1. Performance By Design
      2. Clojure Abstractions
      3. Leaning on Java
      4. Host Performance
      5. Concurrency and Parallelism
      6. Measuring Performance
      7. Optimizing Performance
      8. Application Performance
      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-767-1
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 198

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