I admit to not having read the paper all the way through, but Figure 2 only shows Common Lisp as being noticeably faster than C in one instance, and I suspect t

I admit to not having read the paper all the way through, but Figure 2 only shows Common Lisp as being noticeably faster than C in one instance, and I suspect that's due to an anomaly of some kind (it's totally out of line with the other C speeds).