Hey, this might not be too relevant to your project but since you said "web project" it might be.
I cannot speak for Go but Clojure is "fast enough". I went from Ruby to Clojure in one app and the difference was huge (150ms-ish -> 10ms-ish). I'm actually somewhat of a performance junkie and even got most Clojure numbers down to 2ms but NONE OF IT MATTERED! At the time of transition most of the frontend was still a large ball of jQuery-sphagetti and absolutely no proper HTTP caching config in the backend. While the initial request got faster we were still looking at average page load times of 3+ seconds. When I started rewriting all of the speed related stuff in the frontend the performance gains were huge, it more than halved the average page load time which had a far greater impact overall than the choice of programming language in the backend. None of these techniques are specific to any programming language. What had the biggest impact for me was that in Clojure you are just writing Clojure(Script). You don't have to switch between 2 languages for the backend/frontend and get some of the most amazing tools (Closure Compiler) for "free". When it comes to raw speed Clojure and Go will probably produce rather similar numbers, but for me Clojure definitely has the better development story. (Disclaimer: I actually don't know anything about Go frontend story.) I don't care much for micro benchmarks in any language and you should not make decisions based on them. Look at the whole stack. The initial response time for a "hello world" request will never properly reflect your production app. In the end all that matters is your code, it won't be fast just because it is Go and not a JVM. Just my 2 cents, /thomas On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 9:44:48 PM UTC+2, Alan Thompson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm about to start a new web project and they are thinking about using Go > (golang) instead of a JVM (preferably Clojure) based approach. The idea is > "BARE METAL SPEED!!!", but I really think the network and DB will be the > bottlenecks, not Clojure vs Go. > > Is anybody out there aware of any speed comparisons using Clojure/Pedestal > and/or Go? I'm thinking basic measurements like connections/sec, latency, > simultaneous users, etc. > > Thanks, > Alan > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
