Ignoring the fact that, as mentioned elsewhere this comparison is not like-for-like, clojure and java won't compile to precisely the same thing. Much like commo

Ignoring the fact that, as mentioned elsewhere this comparison is not like-for-like, clojure and java won't compile to precisely the same thing. Much like common lisp and C++ compilers targeting x86 won't compile code doing the same thing to exactly the same instructions (I know the JVM JIT means this isn't really fair comparison, but the basic point holds). The runtimes are completely different, too.