Laziness helps when dealing with large data sets, but it's also tricky to get right. If you mistakenly "hold onto the head" of a lazy sequence, you block garbage collection on the entire sequence and usually run out of memory.
I think Clojure is good for dealing with large data sets for the following reasons: - rich data-manipulation API built on abstractions - performance Also, distributed processing systems written in Java are easily accessible from Clojure. For example, Hadoop and Cascalog. -S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
