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. 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
