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Immutable components #4

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mikera opened this issue Feb 9, 2014 · 0 comments

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mikera commented Feb 9, 2014

We should remove mutable state from components.

Mutable state was originally included in components for performance reasons. However this seems to be counter-productive:

The performance gain is probably quite small as long as mutable vectors are used to accumulate gradient values (which is the expensive mutable step)
It means that defensive copying of components is required for concurrent use.
It's generally unidiomatic in Clojure to use mutable objects

This will require some significant refactoring, but is probably worth it to improve the overall Nurokit API

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