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It's compared to V8. And V8 is a monster. See the benchmark games: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=hipe http:/

• rayiner 14y ago
  V8 has quite a ways to go against state of the art 1990s technology: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te... What's crazy to me is that SBCL still stands up toe-to-toe with say Mono (3.x, using LLVM) (or GHC or the JVM): http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=csharp&lang2=sbcl http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te.... This is a compiler that hasn't even heard of SSA, nor any other advance in low-level optimizations in the last 15-20 years. It also achieves parity with Java on binary-trees, even though that's basically a GC benchmark and SBCL has a fairly primitive one. It's a testament to the power of a well-tuned compiler using relatively simple algorithms and a language that is pretty amenable to optimization despite being highly dynamic.
  • johntb86 14y ago
    Yes, highly dynamic: (declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (space 0) (debug 0)) (type sb ,c) (type (simple-array sb (,n)) ,copy))
    • rayiner 14y ago
      Discretion is the better part of valor...