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by rkts 6107 days ago
Haskell does well in benchmarks but this hides the fact that its performance is very unpredictable. Try it and you'll see what I mean. Also, Common Lisp does well in benchmarks but only after a lot of declarations are added which make the code nearly unreadable.

Personally I get the best results from the MLton SML compiler. OCaml is also pretty fast and more practical. YMMV.