On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Nicolas Oury <nicolas.o...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I was referring to the rules of the benchmark game. When you benchmark > language, using another language is not fair. > > If you were to do your own program, of course you could use Java. > However, in the particular circumstance, it is a bit annoying to use > Java just to create a data structure type. I would say just be a little patient on this point. Seems like there are things developing related to Clojure-in-Clojure that would help with this. Clojure is already so useful and polished it's easy to forget just how early days it really is. David > > > Best, > > Nicolas. > > > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:00 -0700, Bradbev wrote: > > > > > > Why can't we write programs in Clojure and > > > drop down to Java if necessary? > > > > That's what I find funny about these threads, Clojure's Java interop > > is good, Java is easy to write performant code in. There is a clear > > path to getting the best JVM performance possible from a Clojure > > environment. I'm not saying that we shouldn't worry about Clojure's > > general performance - but for microbenchmarks there is a very clear > > optimization strategy. > > > > Brad > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---