How does newLISP compare in speed?
It compares well to popular scripting tools like Perl or Python, not only in general computing speed but even better when it comes to startup time and memory/disk footprint. Have a look at some benchmarks. Many functions for which other languages require the inclusion of external modules are already built into newLISP. Networking functions and mathematical methods like FFT (Fast Fourier Analysis) or Bayesian machine learning functions are lightning fast in newLISP. They are built-in functions and do not require any external modules. Despite of this, newLISP is smaller than other scripting languages.
