Hi Marshall,
  I think we're definitely on the right track.
If I replace the reverse call with the following function I get a parallel 
speedup of ~7.3 on an 8 core machine.

(defn copy-to-java-list [coll]
  (let [lst (java.util.LinkedList.)]
    (doseq [x coll]
      (.addFirst lst x))
    lst))

This function should do as much memory allocation as the clojure reverse 
but has vastly better parallel performance.
There does seem to be something unusual about conj and 
clojure.lang.PersistentList in this parallel test case and I don't think 
it's related to the JVMs memory allocation.

Cameron.

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