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
> > >
>
>
> >
>

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