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It may come to you as a surprise but Java is incredibly fast. They manage to get near-native performance... on virtual machines. There are trillions of dollars relying on Java, you'd better believe the JVMs have been optimized.
Go read any benchmark, Java is orders of magnitude faster than any of the scripting languages you might be familiar with.
http://textboard.org/prog/93/1
Go find C, C++, Java, and then things like PHP, Python or Ruby in the execution time column. Take a mental note and remember which ones are ``slow as fuck''.
Clojure based on Java
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that compiles into JVM the platform bytecode, if that's what you meant. Maybe you've read memes on a consumer electronics board for teenagers, about Java the language being overly verbose? They weren't criticism of the JVM, which is largely acclaimed.
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