[shakna]

> 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.

[igouy]

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/...