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# Specter
Deep introspection and transformation of nested data
# About
Most of Clojure programming involves creating, manipulating, and transforming immutable values. However, as soon as your values become more complicated than a simple map or list – like a list of maps of maps – transforming these data structures becomes extremely cumbersome.
Specter is a library for concisely querying and updating nested data structures. One way to think of it is "get-in" and "assoc-in" on steroids, though Specter works on any data structure, not just maps. It is similar to the concept of a "lens" in functional programming, though it has some important extensions.
Specter is a library for querying and updating nested data structures. One way to think of it is "get-in" and "assoc-in" on steroids, though Specter works on any data structure, not just maps. It is similar to the concept of a "lens" in functional programming, though it has some important extensions.
Specter is a very high performance library. For example – the Specter equivalent to get-in runs 30% faster than get-in, and the Specter equivalent to update-in runs 5x faster than update-in. In each case the Specter code is equally as convenient.
# Latest Version
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Looking at the implementations of the built-in selectors should provide you with the guidance you need to make your own selectors.
Finally, you can make `select` and `update` work much faster by precompiling your selectors using the `comp-paths` function. There's about a 10x speed difference between the following two invocations of update:
Finally, you can make `select` and `update` work much faster by precompiling your selectors using the `comp-paths` function. There's about a 3x speed difference between the following two invocations of update:
```clojure
(def precompiled (comp-paths ALL :a even?))
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(update precompiled inc structure)
```
Depending on the details of the selector and the data being transformed, precompiling can sometimes provide more than a 10x speedup.
Some more examples:
Decrement every value in a map: