[tmtvl]

> With that in mind, what other lisps are running circles against common-lisp?

Well, I haven't tried any of the Linear Lisps, but as far as I know it's the fastest Lisp. That said, well-written C or Fortran will run circles around it.

> From my experience sbcl common-lisp is about equal to Go and Java which I consider pretty fast languages.

SBCL is amazing, it's really fast (though LW beats it in certain situations), but it's in the same class as Go and Java, which I consider dog slow. Modern computers are really, really, stupendously, ludicrously fast; but many programming languages don't give our computers a chance to really shine, which is a shame.

Basically it's like... an F1 car is really fast as long as you don't compare it to a fighter jet.