Question

I guess they’re the same thing but Clojure uses the Array class to manipulate.

Anyway, I’ve been told that in Clojure if you really need speed then you can use arrays but between the following programs the Java version is much faster

(time
 (let [data (int-array 100000000)]
   (dotimes [q 100000000]
     (aset-int data q q))))

_

public class Array{
    public static void main(String[] args){
    long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    int[] data = new int[100000000];
    for(int q = 0;q < data.length;q++){
        data[q] = q;
    }
    System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
    }
}

In contrast, this Clojure program that uses the IntBuffer class is almost as fast as the Java code

(time
 (let [data (IntBuffer/allocate 100000000)]
   (dotimes [q 100000000]
     (.put data q q))))

Answer 1

Don’t use aset-* functions. Just use aset: (aset data q q). Don’t ask me why the aset-* functions are there. As long as I can remember their use was discouraged.