Immutant uses Undertow, which will start using Netty under the hoods in 3.0. Perf-wise, both Yada & Pedestal (and many others) add a lot of components to request pipeline by default, so they can be easily an order of magnitude slower than raw Netty. For raw byte-perf, just use the Java servers or lite clojure wrappers, Aleph being one.
wow undertow will switch to netty? is there any point in using it over netty at that rate though?