Saturday, 18 February 2012 Why is Clojure so slow? Clojure is great in many ways, but one thing it can't be accused of is being particularly fast. What I mean by fast here is the speed in which Clojure programs execute. This is a well known issue in the Clojure community and have been discussed on the mailing list and stack overflow. I am not intending to troll or fuel any fires here, just jotting