diff --git a/benchmark/cljs/benchmark_runner.cljs b/benchmark/cljs/benchmark_runner.cljs
index da1a4e5df2..d0d48d6548 100644
--- a/benchmark/cljs/benchmark_runner.cljs
+++ b/benchmark/cljs/benchmark_runner.cljs
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 (simple-benchmark [coll (list 1 2 3)] (-first coll) 1000000)
 (simple-benchmark [coll (list 1 2 3)] (rest coll) 1000000)
 (simple-benchmark [coll (list 1 2 3)] (-rest coll) 1000000)
-(simple-benchmark [coll (list 1 2 3)] (next coll) 1000000)
+(simple-benchmark [] (list) 1000000)
+(simple-benchmark [] (list 1 2 3) 1000000)
 (println)
 
 (println ";;; vector ops")
diff --git a/src/cljs/cljs/core.cljs b/src/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
index 8484bf7337..c4f8e28e8a 100644
--- a/src/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
+++ b/src/cljs/cljs/core.cljs
@@ -1547,8 +1547,14 @@ reduces them without incurring seq initialization"
     (rseq coll)
     (reduce conj () coll)))
 
-(defn list [& items]
-  (reduce conj () (reverse items)))
+(defn list
+  ([] ())
+  ([x] (conj () x))
+  ([x y] (conj (list y) x))
+  ([x y z] (conj (list y z) x))
+  ([x y z & items]
+     (conj (conj (conj (reduce conj () (reverse items))
+                       z) y) x)))
 
 (deftype Cons [meta first rest ^:mutable __hash]
   IList