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Weird, as I was browsing the language shootout, I got the impression that SBCL produces damn fast code, in most cases comparable to the code emited by GCC or Java 6.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=...

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Yeah, that's the point. It's damn fast now. The "too slow" meme is from decades ago.

Notice that you're looking at SBCL 0.9.16

Notice that there are more up-to-date measurements available from the homepage

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

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