the scala and clojure folks have spent a lot of bandwidth discussing: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/33f80f1bb8277351# http://groups.

the scala and clojure folks have spent a lot of bandwidth discussing: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/33f80f1bb8277351# http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/33f... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1316056/how-to-reduce-scala-java-startup-overhead http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1316056/how-to-reduce-sca... http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/81-GC--Issue-78----patch-to-improve-startup-time-on-low-end-hardware http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/81-GC--Issue-... http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/c40b2973109db24# http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...