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by macnod 6165 days ago
Out of curiosity, I wrote a simple non-optimized quicksort function in Common Lisp (SBCL) and timed a 180,000-element sort at 567ms, about half as much as the Java version. I'm sure that could be improved greatly with better coding and type hints.

Here's the code http://donnieknows.com/blog/sbcl-fast