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In my case, it was definitely a problem of resource limits during compilation only, since the same logic would work fine if not a macro and run at runtime, so not a general case of the JVM not setup to handle the work, but specifically macros not able to handle the work.

C++ obviously has a limit on template depths as well, but they are so high that rarely does anyone get close to the defaults. Clojure probably has very limited defaults (assuming that defaults are the cause).