Hey,

out of curiosity i did some benchmarking on my Macbook Pro 13 i5 2,7 GHz.

I chose a simple naive fibonacci implementation as a candidate 
(i know that is not a good comparison value for real-world cases)

The implementation looks like this:
 
(defn fib [n]
  (if (< n 2)
    n
    (+ (fib (- n 2)) (fib (- n 1)))))



The results are a little bit surprising.

The average time for fib(32) in Clojure was ~ 500ms
The same algorithm in Java takes ~ 15 ms to finish.
That means Clojure it's ~30x slower than Java for this special case.

I also "warmed up" the JVM in both cases. For Clojure i used "criterium".


Can somebody explain? Do i do something wrong? Are there any optimization 
<http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/optimization.html>s possible, e.g. 
type hints etc. ? 
Does Clojure has problems with recursive functions?


Greetings

Daniel Gerlach

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