I also write Clojure for food, but also for fun. I found that a lot of Clojure is fast enough but also speeding it up is relatively easy with some type hinting

I also write Clojure for food, but also for fun. I found that a lot of Clojure is fast enough but also speeding it up is relatively easy with some type hinting and perhaps dipping into mutable data structures or other tricks. Relevant Stackoverflow which contains a lot of simple suggestions to hopefully shore up the deficit compared to SBCL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14115980/clojure-performance-really-bad-on-simple-loop-versus-java#14116215 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14115980/clojure-perform...