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How I customized the CLOS Meta-Object Protocol in OpenLDK to replace PCL’s multi-dispatch machinery with a fast hash-table cache, taking Clojure bootstrap from 2h45m to 2 minutes 40 seconds. (more…)

Codename One allows developers to write in Java and build them into native code for various mobile platforms. Too good to be true? Aldo Ziflaj investigates.

Java is one of the most popular languages on Repl.it, and the JVM powers many of our other languages (Java Swing, Clojure, Kotlin). We… (more…)

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