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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by jxy on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:22PM (#13360363) 

   on average, the Lisp programs ran significantly faster
   than the C/C++ programs and much faster than the Java
   programs (mean runtimes were 41 s for Lisp versus 165 s
   for C/C++).
The only thing I can say is that their C/C++ code has serious problems.
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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by lucidguppy on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:34PM (#13361425)
Perhaps they didn't optimize.
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