Clojure Performance For Expensive Algorithms

Question

I have implemented an algorithm to calculate the longest contiguous common subsequence (not to be confused with longest common subsequence, though not important for

Answer 1

Here are a couple improvements:

1. No advantage to fancy type hinting, just use ^objects
2. aset-int is deprecated I believe -- just plain old aget is faster, by about 3x overall it seems

Beyond that (and the long type hint on the recur mentioned above), I don't see any obvious ways to improve further.

(defn lcs
  [^objects a1 ^objects a2]
  (let [a1-len (alength a1)
        a2-len (alength a2)
        prev (int-array (inc a2-len))
        curr (int-array (inc a2-len))]
    (loop [i 0 max-len 0 prev prev curr curr]
      (if (< i a1-len)
        (recur (inc i)
               (long (loop [j 0 max-len max-len]
                 (if (< j a2-len)
                   (if (= (aget a1 i) (aget a2 j))
                     (let [match-len (inc (aget prev j))]
                       (do
                         (aset curr (inc j) match-len)
                         (recur (inc j) (max max-len match-len))))
                     (do
                       (aset curr (inc j) 0)
                       (recur (inc j) max-len)))
                   max-len)))
               curr
               prev)
        max-len))))
#'user/lcs
user> (time (lcs a1 a2))
"Elapsed time: 3862.211 msecs"