Comment by igouy
4 months ago
> Huh.
The hardware changed.
The way measurements were made changed.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
The Java version changed.
The SBCL version changed.
> side by side
You'd have to say what you mean by that.
> You'd have to say what you mean by that.
They appear, literally, side by side, in the list. That is, they were competitive eight years ago. They are still competitive today.
By design, the 8 year old page you linked presented Lisp measurements side-by-side against Java measurements (by excluding the other programs).
There's overlap across most of the different language implementations:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...