How to find length of lazy sequence without forcing realization?

Question

I\'m currently reading the O\'reilly Clojure programming book which it\'s says the following in it\'s section about lazy sequences:

It is possible (th

Answer 1

As inspired by soulcheck's answer, here is a lazy but counted map of an expensive function over a fixed size collection.

(defn foo [s f] 
  (let [c (count s), res (map f s)] 
    (reify 
      clojure.lang.ISeq 
        (seq [_] res) 
      clojure.lang.Counted 
        (count [_] c) 
      clojure.lang.IPending 
        (isRealized [_] (realized? res)))))


(def bar (foo (range 5) (fn [x] (Thread/sleep 1000) (inc x))))

(time (count bar))
;=> "Elapsed time: 0.016848 msecs"
;    5

(realized? bar)
;=> false


(time (into [] bar))
;=> "Elapsed time: 4996.398302 msecs"
;   [1 2 3 4 5]

(realized? bar)
;=> true

(time (into [] bar))
;=> "Elapsed time: 0.042735 msecs"
;   [1 2 3 4 5]