Richard Fateman published two papers on this, one where MacLisp beat out Fortran, in 1973 (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1086803.1086804 http://portal

Richard Fateman published two papers on this, one where MacLisp beat out Fortran, in 1973 (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1086803.1086804 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1086803.1086804), and a really comprehensive paper about Common Lisp in 1995 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/49112889/fateman-et-al-fast-floating-point-processing-in-common-lisp http://www.scribd.com/doc/49112889/fateman-et-al-fast-floati...).