[lispm]

To me 'fast' means more than startup time. The headline is just clickbait.

The time you are reporting is also not that 'fast'. Other tools start in a fraction of that time.

[grzm]

sbcl isn't Clojure, is it? Or am I mistaken? I don't see the article or its title comparing it to repls in general.

Edit: original comment mentioned sbcl and included sbcl repl start-up time.

[lispm]

Better title would be:

'less slowest starting Clojure REPL of three'

Mentioning 'fastest' at a time of 3GHZ multicore machines with SSD and a duration of 0.1 seconds is just absurd. That's >100 million instructions just to start a language prompt and evaluating a symbol to itself. The Java version is even more absurd with around 1 billion instructions just to get a REPL...

A shell on a 1 MIPS DEC VAX 11/780 started faster, while the machine had a hundred users.

[fnordsensei]

What tools? What are you comparing it to?

[lispm]

Basically any self respecting scripting language starts at a fraction of the time of the 'world fastest Clojure REPL'.