I have already read various accounts of Clojure vs. Scala and while I realize that both have their place. There are a few considerations that I haven\'t acquired a complete exp
The stats produced by the "Computer Language Benchmark Game" are about the best you're probably going to find.
They are in-depth and you can compare many languages. The problem is that they don't cover Clojure :(
That said, it's pretty easy to submit anything--it's all open source.
The stats do say that Scala is pretty damn quick.