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Also, MLton often beats g++, so functional languages aren't slow coaches any -- Ulrich Hobelmann wrote: Well, it's relative. Most of the other Lisp/Scheme implementations were two
> I wouldn't consider 5 times as slow as a *functional* language very
> competitive, but it might be fast enough for many problems.
orders of magnitude slower. Stalin gets even closer than SBCL.
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