The performance claim doesn't really matter in a world where we use languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript for major applications. Also, compared to t

The performance claim doesn't really matter in a world where we use languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript for major applications. Also, compared to these languages, Common Lisp seems to generally be faster (and, on most implementation/architecture combinations, supports real parallelism). http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=python3&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=yarv&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=php&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...