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

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/box-plot-summary-charts.html#chart-fastest-elapsed https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...