Clojure is 60 times faster than Ruby

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I hate how slow Ruby is, but I liked the meta-programming. So, recently, I’ve been playing with Clojure, which runs on the JVM. Being a Lisp, it offers more meta-programming than Ruby, and it is also 60 times faster.

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    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=clojure&lang2=yarv
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