Often the lists we create have only a few elements in them. This library provides a collection type, tuple, which is optimized for these cases.
A tuple behaves exactly like a Clojure vector. However, compared to lists and vectors, a two element tuple is ~2-3x faster to create, destructure, calculate a hash, check for equality, and look up in a normal Java hash-map. Some of these gains are amplified at larger sizes; a five element tuple is ~30x faster to create than a vector. Tuples larger than six elements, however, simply turn into standard vectors.
[clj-tuple "0.1.4"]clj-tuple> (tuple 1 2 3)
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