Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-15, Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide at sacrideo.us> wrote:

> I've heard it said, it is easy to beat C compilers for fast code, it's 
> just hard to beat them at benchmarks written for C. That is, do the same 
> type of things as what Scheme gives you, such as lots of dynamic 
> allocation and resizing, higher order functions, and closures, and you 
> won't find C faster.

I don't know about that...

It's hard to beat the speed of a program that segfaults immediately.  ;)

It's hardly fair if you're going to demand that the C program actually
works correctly.

-- 
Grant