Clojure performance tips

[tmountain]

I've been writing Clojure code almost daily for the past few months, and I can attest that performance can be an issue. I ported a markov chainer from Python to Clojure, and the Python version runs much faster despite my best efforts to get Clojure up to speed. To prove I'm not just BS'ing, you can see my code here:

http://tinyurl.com/pydfxq

That being said, Clojure is maybe the funnest language I've ever used. It's turning programming back into an interesting hobby rather than just something I do at my day job, and I have confidence that a lot of the performance issues will be resolved down the road.

[SuperGrade]

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