# Clojure: Designed for Performance Yesterday I blogged about my LCA talk [[Crowdsourcing Upstream Refactoring|/tmarble/posts/Crowdsourcing_Upstream_Refactoring]]. Today I gave my a talk on Clojure and performance at [Linux Conf Australia 2013][lca]. Clojure I mixed giving an overview of why I think Clojure offers the advantages of Common Lisp and Java without the disadvantages of either along with live coding on the REPL. There were several great questions and I am really pleased that many delegates told me that the were going to give Clojure a close look! Later this evening we have the Emacs BOF and I know I'll find a number of friendly eLisp hackers. If you have a chance to attend LCA I would highly recommended it... This is among the best organized conferences I've attended and comprises a fantastic group of enthusiastic contributors. Below you will find links to the presentation. Very soon the video of this talks (and all the talks) will be available. ## links * as PDF: [[clojure-performance.pdf|clojure-performance.pdf]] * full source ([org-tree-slide][org-tree-slide]): [[clojure-performance.tar.gz|clojure-performance.tar.gz]] * the talk was on [Wednesday][lca-wed] [lca]: http://linux.conf.au/ [lca-wed]: http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/wednesday [org-tree-slide]: https://github.com/takaxp/org-tree-slide [[!tag LCA 2013 clojure performance]]