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.
A LLVM/C++/RPython based version of Clojure would on a good day come in at about 1/10 the speed of Clojure on the JVM for general use cases. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The main motivation would be performance gains. > > blah? so many impedance mismatches and layers of indirection that i > don't think it will gain much? i mean, it would probably be better to > spend time tuning gc parameters or something. just a rant / guess. > e.g. robovm is for some use cases perfectly fine performance wise > believe it or not. > > -- > 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. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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.
