On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As someone who has spent a fair amount of time playing around with such > things, I'd have to say people vastly misjudge the raw speed you get from > the JVM's JIT and GC. In fact, I'd challenge someone to come up with a > general use, dynamic language that is not based on the JVM and comes even > close to the speed of Clojure. > > Julia reportedly outperforms Clojure (I haven't benchmarked it myself). Julia is designed primarily for numeric computation, but unlike a lot of other "math languages" like Octave, R, and Matlab whose general programming constructs are horribly slow, the overall general-purpose machinery of Julia (function calls, looping, data structures, dispatch, etc.) is said to be quite fast. Speaking of numeric computation, it is, in my opinion, a real weak point of Clojure. There is a huge perf. penalty for boxed numbers, and since anything in a Clojure data structure gets boxed, it's rather difficult to work around Clojure's poor numeric performance for anything more algorithmically complicated than a super-simple loop. A number of dynamic languages use tagged numbers (primitive types with a couple bits set aside to mark the type of the number), and these are going to do much better than Clojure for a wide variety of math-oriented computational tasks. I've benchmarked some specific programs in Clojure vs Racket and Racket tended to come out ahead when there was a lot of arithmetic. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
