It didn't - it's an artifact created by munging together different data sets. Look at a single data set - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programmi

It didn't - it's an artifact created by munging together different data sets. Look at a single data set - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... Better, look at a direct comparison - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang=racket&lang2=sbcl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang=racke...