Higher-Order » Blog Archive » Understanding Clojure’s PersistentVector implementationOne of the unique features of Clojure is that the core data structures are persistent (immutable with efficient structural sharing). This includes data structures Vector and Map that are mutable in most other languages. To be useful, operations on persistent data structures need to have performance characteristics that are similar to their mutating counterparts; e.g., the cost of random access on
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