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Re:Java 7 is now available by runevault on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:36PM (#2817601)
For clojure no, but jRuby and several similar languages are getting a huge boost.
Re:Java 7 is now available by PyErr_SetString on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:48PM (#2817667)
Have you seen any actual numbers on this? I've googled around a bit and can't seem to find any.
Re:Java 7 is now available by runevault on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:55PM (#2817703)
JRuby developer Charles Nutter claims that Java JDK7 gives a performance boost to JRuby, saying "On bench_threaded_reverse, Java 7 is 20% faster than Java 6, and JRuby plus invokedynamic is 20% faster than that".[1]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby with the [1] being

https://twitter.com/#!/headius/status/78282122997149696