Article by #RonGarrett (fka #EranGat) from #Y2000, when Gat still worked at #JetPropulsionLaboratory:

›Lisp as an alternative to Java‹
→ https://flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf

Quote: ›#Lisp seems to offer reduced development time and reduced variability in performance. […] although execution times of the fastest #C and #CPP programs were faster than the fastest Lisp programs, the runtime performance of the Lisp programs in the aggregate was substantially better than C and C++ (and
vastly better than #Java).‹