Is reflection free clojure code possible?

[Jarl Haggerty]

Since there appears to be a version of clojure being made for .Net I
was interested in the possibility of programming Xbox games in
clojure. I imagine the Xbox doesn't have many of the same limitations
that mobile devices have but as I understand it the version of .Net on
the Xbox is a compact version that has either anemic or no support for
reflection.

I know you can use type hints to keep clojure from making function
calls with reflection but does that necessarily eliminate all
reflection?

[Per Vognsen]

With XNA running on the Xbox 360, reflection is the least of your
worries. The runtime uses a very poor non-generational mark-and-sweep
collector. At the rate of memory allocation in a typical Clojure
program, you would be faced with constant GC hitches. Even people
writing XNA games in C# (where idiomatic code is much less allocation
intense) have to be very careful with allocations and will tend to use
preallocated object pools for virtually everything.

-Per

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