All the time spent factoring is wasted. You can *construct* and/or count the semiprimes far more efficiently than your method of factoring each number one a time in order to filter the semiprimes from the entire range of numbers up to 10^8. Your approach is fundamentally slow; this has nothing to do with Clojure.
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