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lutorm on Nov 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Only fast languages are interesting

"The point is, Lush has datatypes for fast numerics: it’s designed to do fast numerics. Clojure doesn’t have such datatypes..."

He knows he's not comparing like for like. What he apparently doesn't know is that there is a better data type.

Nrsolis on Nov 30, 2011 [–]

Whats the better datatype? I'm looking at doing some numeric programming and I wondered about Clojure for this.

weavejester on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

If your aim is raw speed, not a lot beats a standard JVM array.

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