3 ms·

So execution speed, fair enough. FWIW, I've been staying away from Clojure because of the JVM. A lot of us are wearing the scars of the JVM battles!

• fiddlerwoaroof 8y ago
  If you need performance and want to avoid the jvm, there are also lisps like Chez Scheme and various Common Lisp implementations (sbcl, in particular, can produce really well-tuned numerical code).
  • hjek 8y ago
    ... which is why Racket-on-Chez[0] is a really exciting development. [0]: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.html https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.h...
    • igouy 8y ago
      "Keep in mind that the original goal is not to have a faster Racket, but a better-implemented Racket with acceptable performance."