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by galfarragem 2445 days ago
Could somebody write this in Clojure? I'm too noob to do it myself. Will it be an order of magnitude slower?
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weavie 2445 days ago
Many languages will have counted a 1gb file before Clojure has even started up.
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maxresdefault 2444 days ago
> Many languages will have counted a 1gb file before Clojure has even started up.

You mean before the JVM has started up. One could compile Clojure with GraalVM to eliminate startup time.

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LeonidasXIV 2444 days ago
Not really, the initialization of the JVM is fast(er), but initializing the Clojure runtime took a lot of time. At least in 1.7, not sure if it got better in the meantime.

I could start and run Java programs way faster than just starting the Clojure REPL.

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