on average, the Lisp programs ran significantly faster than the C/C++ programs a...

jxy on Jan 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioi...

   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.

lucidguppy on Jan 10, 2017 [–]

Perhaps they didn't optimize.