title: Clojure vs Node.js RAM consumption
body: <p>Recently I've been stumbling upon a lot of benchmarks between Node.js and Clojure, such as <a href="http://dosync.posterous.com/22397098" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>, and <a href="http://dosync.posterous.com/clojure-nodejs-and-why-messaging-can-be-lame" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>, and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6216888/is-nodejs-faster-than-clojure">this</a>. It seems to me, that compared to languages like Ruby, both Node.js and Clojure are about equally fast (which means a lot faster).</p>
  
  <p>The question is, how does Clojure compare to Node.js in terms of RAM consumption? Say that I was about to write a simple live chat app.</p>
  
  <p>If I was about to compare Rails vs Node.js, I can basically expect Node.js to be 100 times faster and take 10 times less memory than Rails ... but how does Clojure fit in here?</p>
  
  <p>How would Clojure compare here in terms of memory consumption? Can I expect it to take a lot more memory than Node.js, because it is running on the JVM? Or is this just a stereotype that isn't true anymore?</p>