No need to be hostile, I was just detailing my own experience, relevant to the article.

And it wasn't a totally unreasonable contribution, but it's important to keep in mind that if you compared CINT to SBCL, you'd probably conclude that Lisp is hundreds of times faster than C.

Here's such a comparison: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...

I don't think it's hostile to point out that Clisp is only interpreted. It points out a flaw in your "C is faster" argument.

I wouldn't have been hostile if you attacked my family and loved ones. My development environment OTOH ..

What if your development environment is Emacs and GNU stuff is your family?? :S