>> So does this mean we get to draw the conclusion that Linux is just
>> that much more efficient than Windows?  

Careful.. we're comparing different lisps running on different operating
systems so you can't draw that conclusion at all.

Lisp code running on Linux and NT will run at similar speeds as long
as you aren't doing operating specific things and in that case 
the battle is won by the better OS (for that specific thing).

The acl 4.3 numbers give you an idea of how well the lisp compiler did
on the intel x86 architecture back when acl 4.3 was released.  You can
expect that there have been some performance improvements 
in the compiler and runtime system since then.  Whether they will
affect this benchmark is hard to say, but we hope so.

>> Still, you have to wonder, coming from
>> a company whose mailer ships a megabyte of data with every email
>> message...)

You've lost me on this one. I hope you're not reading mail headers
generated by Mail Transfer Agents and not intended to be read by humans.



-john foderaro
 franz inc.