Why is the Clojure Hello World program so slow compared to Java and Python?
- by viksit
Hi all,
I'm reading "Programming Clojure" and I was comparing some languages I use for some simple code. I noticed that the clojure implementations were the slowest in each case. For instance,
Python - hello.py
def hello_world(name):
print "Hello, %s" % name
hello_world("world")
and result,
$ time python hello.py
Hello, world
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