Comments on: Yahoo Finance in Clojure

By: pjonesdotca

pjonesdotca — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:06:41 +0000

‎(eql? (+ yahoo.finance clojure) awesome)
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By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:25:53 +0000

You might be interested in clj-apache-http, which does all the HttpClient nonsense for you.

Look on GitHub or Clojars.

By: Paul Legato

Paul Legato — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:08:57 +0000

Very nice, thanks. I much prefer your version
Apache’s very bloated, so yours is probably faster.

I suspect libcurl multi-mode would be still faster – it puts all connections in one thread, and so avoids thread creation/teardown overhead – but I haven’t been able to find Java bindings that enable multi-mode yet.. and at this stage it’s not worth the few extra seconds it would yield to write them myself.

Thanks for sharing the code.

Cheers,
Paul

By: Jonathan Shore

Jonathan Shore — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:13:01 +0000

Cool (did not get to respond to ur msg b4 as lost power for 5 days).

As for Apache, agree with you completely. Most of the Apache software is heavyweight and over-engineered. I try to stay away from anything Apache even in Java-land.

By: Baishampayan Ghose

Baishampayan Ghose — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:43:20 +0000

Interesting. But your code has too many Java-isms. This is my take, which has considerably more idiomatic Clojure. While I don’t make any performance guarantees, it should be at least equally fast (if not faster) than yours

http://github.com/ghoseb/yfinance