The only conclusion I can draw from these benchmarks over the years is that 
the speed of Clojure is inversely proportional to it's idiomaticity

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 7:23:48 AM UTC+2, Mars0i wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 12:19:23 AM UTC-5, Mars0i wrote:
>>
>> I was going to say that I'd be surprised if Clojure were as fast as SBCL 
>> (overall, on average, depends on your application, depends on how you code 
>> it, ymmv, etc. ...).  Then I stopped back to check the little benchmarks on 
>> the Computer Language Benchmarks Game 
>> <https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=clojure&lang2=sbcl>
>>  
>> .  Whatever it is that those comparisons do, or don't prove, I would no 
>> longer be surprised.
>>
>
> I forgot how much faster Clojure got in 1.7 and 1.8.  I remember Java 
> wiping the floor with Clojure on most of those benchmarks a couple of years 
> ago, but now it's just a little bit faster on average 
> <https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/clojure.html> on those 
> benchmarks.
>

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