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canttestthis on July 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Another year of Clojure

> Clojure's memory consumption is extreme, which excludes it from many realms of software development.

Is this solely because it runs on the JVM? Because per the alioth comparison tests, Java 7 uses much less memory than Clojure too.

tibbe on July 20, 2012 [–]

Dynamic languages typically also have to pay a price for carrying around type tags and having everything be heap allocated.

rabidsnail on July 20, 2012 | [–]

Those costs are the same as Java's in Clojure's case.

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