Simon Brooke<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@vindarel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vindarel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@borkdude" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>borkdude</span></a></span> exploring further, my SBCL times from the REPL are about three times longer than yours; <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Babashka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babashka</span></a> is (as I expected) quite competitive in this primitive test:</p><p>```<br>time echo "(apply *' (range 1 1000))" | bb >/dev/null<br>Babashka v1.12.197 REPL.<br>Use :repl/quit or :repl/exit to quit the REPL.<br>Clojure rocks, Bash reaches.</p><p>real 0m0.013s<br>user 0m0.005s<br>sys 0m0.009s<br>```</p>