I'm the author of Aleph, the Clojure web server being benchmarked. The most recent release of Aleph has focused on adding instrumentation and support for easil

I'm the author of Aleph, the Clojure web server being benchmarked. The most recent release of Aleph has focused on adding instrumentation and support for easily creating asynchronous workflows. A lot of new abstractions have been introduced, and "Hello World" performance has suffered a bit as a result. However, now that all this has been introduced (0.2.0 is very close to release), I'm planning a "tick" release [1] that will focus on regaining some of the lost performance. So please don't judge Clojure's potential for performant Hello World servers by what Aleph can do right now. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock