interesting that people are choosing node.js over clojure because of speed...

that's not good

it depends .. if you need quick startup and short lived apps, then clojurescript lambdas is fine ..... if a little hit on startup and the lambda lives for awhile, and clojure is good

also depends if the libraries you need to use work with clojurescript or if they need java

jvm ... its not surprising

we have a lambda that's called about 1M times/day with an s3 event, all it does is put the event into dynamo

the clj 95th run time was 10ms, the node version is about 20ms

we were being throttled and i thought it was because of clj startup, but really it was dynamo errors and retries causing the lambda to be alive too long

ended up just using the node version because amazon support understood it better

the 10ms of addl overhead amounts to 3$/month in extra costs, which i am OK with