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Author here. How about Common Lisp, what the article talks about? :)

• t6jvcereio 4y ago
  Somehow, lisp ends up being really slow. so it's doing something else wrong.
  • michaelfiano 4y ago
    Which Lisp? What applications do you think it is slow at? Hint: It can be faster than C due to compiler macros, and infact, its regular expression engine is much faster than Perl's, which is written in C, just to give a concrete example.
  • _ofdw 4y ago
    My experience with SBCL disagrees with this. It's not as fast as, say, C++ for some use cases, but it's pretty quick. Significantly faster than something like Python.
  • TurboHaskal 4y ago
    My experience is that even writing "idiomatic", CLOS heavy code tends to be faster out of the box than most dynlangs out there. Writing close to C++ code requires a lot of manual work and is probably not even worth it unless for optimizing hot-paths.
  • pfdietz 4y ago
    You're probably using O(n^2) idioms, like appending to the end of a growing list.