tonight I ran into this:
http://izumi.plan99.net/blog/index.php/2008/01/17/ruby-vs-php-performance/
turns out newLISP is still faster by 25%, see results here:
http://newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=MergesortBenchmark
Lutz
Neat! Shouldn't the respective language version numbers be noted though?