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by dorfsmay 2786 days ago
So execution speed, fair enough.

FWIW, I've been staying away from Clojure because of the JVM. A lot of us are wearing the scars of the JVM battles!

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If you need performance and want to avoid the jvm, there are also lisps like Chez Scheme and various Common Lisp implementations (sbcl, in particular, can produce really well-tuned numerical code).
... which is why Racket-on-Chez[0] is a really exciting development.

[0]: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.h...

"Keep in mind that the original goal is not to have a faster Racket, but a better-implemented Racket with acceptable performance."