I\'m currently looking into Clojure and Incanter as an alternative to R. (Not that I dislike R, but it just interesting to try out new languages.) I like Incanter and find the s
Bradford Cross's blog has a bunch of posts about this (he uses this stuff for the startup he works on link text. In general, using transients in inner loops, type hinting (via *warn-on-reflection*
) etc are all good for speed increases. The Joy of Clojure has a great section on performance tuning, which you should read.