Lisp SBCL programs versus Java by benchmark task performance reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 0.04 ? 904 0.04 0% 25% 0% 100% Java 0.34 2,096 2183 0.49 50% 56% 24% 47% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 1.78 20,912 940 1.78 1% 2% 1% 99% Java 3.13 36,984 938 3.36 4% 4% 99% 3% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 16.90 33,672 1527 65.55 100% 98% 91% 99% Java 18.27 31,820 1282 72.06 99% 99% 98% 98% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 4.55 19,788 915 15.83 88% 86% 89% 87% Java 4.38 35,388 950 16.80 96% 96% 95% 97% n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 27.25 18,044 1403 27.24 100% 0% 1% 0% Java 22.17 33,040 1489 22.27 100% 1% 0% 1% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 7.74 50,540 2473 28.53 99% 85% 86% 100% Java 6.10 76,520 796 23.59 97% 98% 98% 96% binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 11.63 311,372 943 24.25 77% 49% 47% 44% Java 8.39 933,808 835 28.28 82% 86% 84% 88% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 17.37 542,680 2479 63.34 88% 89% 100% 88% Java 8.75 385,056 1812 27.09 85% 72% 70% 85% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL 7.99 19,688 1757 7.99 33% 1% 1% 68% Java 2.27 43,628 2473 5.93 51% 75% 57% 81% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lisp SBCL Failed Java 0.66 45,016 929 2.03 94% 72% 77% 71% Lisp SBCL SBCL 1.4.0 Java java 10 2018-03-20 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10+46) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10+46, mixed mode) vs C++ vs Java