About LISP

I started playing around with some LISP because you faggots never stop talking about its greatness and I'm truly amazed. At how shitty it really is.

A simple loop printing "hello world" eats up 40MB of RAM. And if you start up 10 of them it takes up 400MB. What the fuck?

No wonder no one uses this garbage.

I just gave it a go in one of the slowest CL implementations which is CLISP(interpreter, however they do have a JIT, but it wasn't used in this case):

[1]> (time (loop repeat 1000000 do (format nil "OP is a faggot.")))
Real time: 7.34375 sec.
Run time: 7.34375 sec.
Space: 384004620 Bytes
GC: 657, GC time: 1.15625 sec.
NIL
It seems to be about 10 times as slow as SBCL's performance, but consumes less memory overall. I haven't bothered trying to compile it and see how fast it would go with CLISP's JIT.