I'd like to provide a data-point on why I would find enabling :jvm-opts even outside of aliases (a previous discussion with @alexmiller mentioned that this feature lacked a compelling use-case). In the spock library, we need to interface with the underlying swi-prolog bindings, and to do that on linux, we symlink a .jar and an .so file from the swi distribution in the resources folder, and then invoke the program with -J-Djava.library.path=resources/. Since this library deals with prolog, I always want this flag to be set when using this package, so I either have to customize the aliases I start my cider repl or add a special invocation. While this is easy enough, it then becomes dependent on the peculiar way in which I use my editor, and so it's more difficult to explain the steps to a user which wants to try the library. If a new user doesn't use my setup, she now has to learn how to customize her editor so that it consistently does the right thing. Conversely, letting us set this flag globally wouldn't require any extra step for the user, and would be easily documented. That said, is there a workflow here I'm missing, and maybe the problem could be solved in another way without having to customize the repl invocation? Is there a change in perspective that I would need?

is there a provided numeric Clojure type that can hold metadata?

(with-meta 123 {:unit :m})
;; errors with:
;; 
;;   class java.lang.Long cannot be cast to class clojure.lang.IObj
;;   (java.lang.Long is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap';
;;   clojure.lang.IObj is in unnamed module of loader 'app')

(with-meta (Integer. 1) {:unit :m})

(with-meta
  (Long. 1)
  {:unit :m})
;; errors with:
;;
;; 1. Unhandled java.lang.ClassCastException

What's the fastest (reasonable) way to compute an (integer) hash (for .hashCode) for a byte array of length 20?