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Clojure is currently significantly slower than Java in general, likely due to dynamic typing. See: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all

• spacemanaki 14y ago
  Right, but that's not terribly relevant to this thread. As I understand it the difference between Clojure on Dalvik and Java on Dalvik is much greater than Clojure on Hotspot and Java on Hotspot.