Issue #381 Reduce the number of Eval calls

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ This is a history of changes to clara-rules.
 
 ### 0.19.0-SNAPSHOT
 * Remove a warning about `qualified-keyword?` being replaced when using Clojure 1.9.
+* Batch evaluation of node expressions for better compilation performance. See [issue 381](https://github.com/cerner/clara-rules/issues/381)
 
 ### 0.18.0
 * Remove unnecessary memory operations from ProductionNode to optimize performance.  Remove :rule-matches in session inspection that did not cause logical insertions and add a new optional feature to return all rule matches, regardless of what their RHS did or whether they were retracted. Add a new listener and tracing method fire-activation!. These changes are moderately non-passive with respect to listening, tracing, and session inspection but are otherwise passive.  See [issue 386](https://github.com/cerner/clara-rules/issues/386) for details.

project.clj

@@ -68,8 +68,15 @@
   ;; perhaps because Leiningen is using this as uneval'ed code.
   ;; For now just duplicate the line.
   :test-selectors {:default (complement (fn [x]
-                                          (some->> x :ns ns-name str (re-matches #"^clara\.generative.*"))))
-                   :generative (fn [x] (some->> x :ns ns-name str (re-matches #"^clara\.generative.*")))}
+                                          (let [blacklisted-packages #{"generative" "performance"}
+                                                patterns (into []
+                                                           (comp
+                                                             (map #(str "^clara\\." % ".*"))
+                                                             (interpose "|"))
+                                                           blacklisted-packages)]
+                                            (some->> x :ns ns-name str (re-matches (re-pattern (apply str patterns)))))))
+                   :generative (fn [x] (some->> x :ns ns-name str (re-matches #"^clara\.generative.*")))
+                   :performance (fn [x] (some->> x :ns ns-name str (re-matches #"^clara\.performance.*")))}
 
   :scm {:name "git"
         :url "https://github.com/cerner/clara-rules"}

src/main/clojure/clara/macros.clj

@@ -196,10 +196,11 @@
 (sc/defn ^:always-validate compile-alpha-nodes
   [alpha-nodes :- [schema/AlphaNode]]
   (vec
-   (for [{:keys [condition beta-children env]} alpha-nodes
+   (for [{:keys [id condition beta-children env]} alpha-nodes
          :let [{:keys [type constraints fact-binding args]} condition]]
 
-     {:type (com/effective-type type)
+     {:id id
+      :type (com/effective-type type)
       :alpha-fn (com/compile-condition type (first args) constraints fact-binding env)
       :children (vec beta-children)})))
 
@@ -209,11 +210,14 @@
   ;;; as a ClojureScript DSL may call productions->session-assembly-form if that DSL
   ;;; has its own mechanism for grouping rules which is different than the clara DSL.
   (com/validate-names-unique productions)
-  (let [beta-graph (com/to-beta-graph productions)
+  (let [id-counter (atom 0)
+        create-id-fn (fn [] (swap! id-counter inc))
+
+        beta-graph (com/to-beta-graph productions create-id-fn)
         ;; Compile the children of the logical root condition.
         beta-network (gen-beta-network (get-in beta-graph [:forward-edges 0]) beta-graph #{})
 
-        alpha-graph (com/to-alpha-graph beta-graph)
+        alpha-graph (com/to-alpha-graph beta-graph create-id-fn)
         alpha-nodes (compile-alpha-nodes alpha-graph)]
 
     `(let [beta-network# ~beta-network

src/main/clojure/clara/rules.cljc

@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@
                                   [(:id node) node]))
 
             ;; type, alpha node tuples.
-            alpha-nodes (for [{:keys [type alpha-fn children env]} alpha-fns
+            alpha-nodes (for [{:keys [id type alpha-fn children env]} alpha-fns
                               :let [beta-children (map id-to-node children)]]
-                          [type (eng/->AlphaNode env beta-children alpha-fn)])
+                          [type (eng/->AlphaNode id env beta-children alpha-fn)])
 
             ;; Merge the alpha nodes into a multi-map
             alpha-map (reduce
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@
         It defaults to checking the :salience property, or 0 if none exists.
       * :activation-group-sort-fn, a comparator function used to sort the values returned by the above :activation-group-fn.
         Defaults to >, so rules with a higher salience are executed first.
+      * :forms-per-eval - The maximum number of expressions that will be evaluated per call to eval.
+        Larger batch sizes should see better performance compared to smaller batch sizes. (Only applicable to Clojure)
+        Defaults to 5000, see clara.rules.compiler/forms-per-eval-default for more information.
 
       This is not supported in ClojureScript, since it requires eval to dynamically build a session. ClojureScript
       users must use pre-defined rule sessions using defsession."