If the JVM is slow at loading dependencies, that fact is very relevant when talking about the startup time. > startup time of Clojure has nothing to do with th

If the JVM is slow at loading dependencies, that fact is very relevant when talking about the startup time. > startup time of Clojure has nothing to do with the JVM Startup time has everything to do with the VM. Check out this post, comparing perf and startup time for Clojure on the CLR vs JVM: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10827093/clojure-performance-on-jvm-versus-clr http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10827093/clojure-performa...