I've been playing around with clojure some more, specifically this tutorial:

http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial

I have a pretty fast box to play around with (I guess most of us do), but the tutorials run extremely slow, scraping HN takes a bit of time, I understand that, but then to list the items should be really fast.

Instead it looks like the data is coming out of a 9600 baud modem.

Is there any specific reason for this?