For a JVM language it appears to be remarkably slow (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/clojure.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/clojure

For a JVM language it appears to be remarkably slow (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/clojure.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/clojure.php), especially compared to Scala (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/scala.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/scala.php). (OTOH Python is still the slowest language around... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=clojure&lang2=python3&data=u32 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...).