Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (2014)
If the author reads this:<p>Can you elaborate more on what you mean by &quot;lackluster performance&quot;? What is the use case? If you&#x27;re looking for top speed in terms of C&#x2F;assembly performance - I&#x27;d say yes, probably the JVM will get in your way. However, I spent months building a database&#x2F;key-value store in Clojure and it&#x27;s quite doable to write very high performance code in Clojure as long as you put the right type hints everywhere. Tools like YourKit can help you identify the bottlenecks in your program. Again, depends on the use case, but Clojure makes it very, very idiomatic to write code that makes full use of a multicore system - something possible in the like of Java, C, et al but definitely not idiomatic at all.