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It's okay, at least when you have SSD or at least decent RAM.

Here is an example:

    ingo@freguntu:~/Frege/frege$ time java -jar fregec.jar -version
    3.23.900
    0:00.22 62016k
    ingo@freguntu:~/Frege/frege$ ls -l fregec.jar -rw------- 1 ingo ingo 33426802 Mär  6 12:32 fregec.jar

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Aren't you checking the Frege compiler, there?

The complaint about Clojure is that Clojure apps start slow. Frege compiles to Java and from there to bytecode, so you'd need to compare a hello world in both languages to answer the original question, I think.

The compiler is a Frege app.

22 milliseconds? Unless I'm mistaken that's blazing fast?

I believe that's 220ms. Which isn't too bad. But Clojure can usually match that if you AOT everything.

It's still too slow for serious command-line utils, though, so you're back to Haskell.

Or using a long-running system daemon to host the VM

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