Heh, no, the most important part about of benchmarking is collecting data so that people can make informed judgements about what language to use on a particular

Heh, no, the most important part about of benchmarking is collecting data so that people can make informed judgements about what language to use on a particular project. Put all those silly benchmarks together and you get a rough sense of how well a language performs. I started learning Lisp specifically because I saw that SBCL could hold it's own against C, C++, Java, Haskell. A dynamic, interactive language that fast? Unbelievable. These days I'd much rather use a language that gives me the full power of the REPL and performs just as well pixel-pushing as it does with web programming.