[pjmlp]

I get 130ms on Windows 8.1, Core Duo 2.53 GHz with jdk1.8.0_40. And 120ms If I disable the JIT.

With a normal hard disk.

Maybe it does take a few ms more than Lua or Python, but hardly anything significant.

[masklinn]

> Maybe it does take a few ms more than Lua or Python

Yeah, like 3 to 6 times longer.

> but hardly anything significant.

Well if 6x is not significant, surely Clojure's second start time is hardly significant.

[pjmlp]

I don't want to install Lua or Python just to test how long an Hello World takes, hence my "maybe".

Even if I am wrong, 6x here means 130ms, whereas Clojure time is in the order of seconds.

Big enough to warrant a few entries on their roadmap.

http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/%27Lean%27+Runtime

http://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/2014/02/25/clojure-bootst...