tbc++ - given your experience, would you consider a Clojure port to Erlang VM a viable idea for production workloads? I know Elixir comes pretty close, but I still prefer Lisp : ) .
On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 1:50:45 PM UTC-7, tbc++ 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. > > 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 > <javascript:>> 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 clo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
