+# 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].
+
+<a href="http://clojure.org/">
+<img src="http://clojure.org/file/view/clojure-icon.gif" alt="Clojure"/>
+</a>
+
+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]]