Here is another speed comparison. Of note is that there is another jvm based lisp dialect kawa. http://per.bothner.com/blog/2010/Kawa-in-shootout/
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Marko Kocić <marko.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Clojure has recently been added to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > benchmarks. I know there are a lot of objections and excuses about > this benchmark, but that is defacto go to place when talking about > language implementation performance. > > The problems is that performance is not that great as it could / > should be. Yes, it is a couple times faster then Ruby or Python, but > everyone's faster then those. > > It still lags far behind Java, it is usually ~4 times slower then > Java, although the code seems heavily optimized thus making it even > more verbose then Java code. When running the same benchmarks with > Clojure 1.3 snapshots I didn't notice fundamental speed difference. > > Scala performance is on par with Java. > > Now, the questions are: > - Could benchmarks themselves be better optimized to better represent > Clojure? > - Is there a fundamental reason why Clojure can't reach Scala speed, > except for maturity? > - What are the plans regarding performance optimizations in near and > distant future? > > I have seen some microbenchmarks where Clojure reaches "almost Java" > speed, but in general it is still much slower. I know that performace > is not "reason d'etre" of Clojure, but it is still important. > > Regards, > Marko > > -- > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- http://hi.im/santosh -- 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
