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by nilved 3922 days ago
It's confusing to me that Clojure running on Dalvik can be slower to start than ClojureScript running on Rhino running Dalvik.
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I believe nvbm's demo running Bocko on Android using ClojureScript is actually using JavaScriptCore.

Rhino is indeed much slower; that's why Tahmid Sadik is motivated to covert Replicator to use JavaScriptCore over Rhino.

Here is nvbm's article on ClojureScript on Android: https://nvbn.github.io/2015/06/04/livecoding-android/
Not JavaScriptCore, just V8 inside a headless WebView.