Let's ignore your guesses about "most FP communities" and look at your example - iirc Andy Fingerhut started benchmarking Clojure programs more than a year bef

Let's ignore your guesses about "most FP communities" and look at your example - iirc Andy Fingerhut started benchmarking Clojure programs more than a year before Clojure was even included in the benchmarks game. https://github.com/jafingerhut/clojure-benchmarks https://github.com/jafingerhut/clojure-benchmarks Here's another thread "Comparing clojure speed to java speed" which has nothing what-so-ever to do with the benchmarks game - http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/4b6830c1a4e87dd3 http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/... (Incidentally, those "hotspot knobs" made the Clojure programs slightly slower but forced collection of the temporary objects that were showing up as much greater memory use than the Java programs.)