What's the fastest language?

(Bar Assembly) I know C++ is fast but definatly not the fastest. Would it be LISP? or am i thinking that just because it's an old language..

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http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=java

A much more interesting benchmark. GHC-compiled programs are almost always on par with Java, except for fannkuch and k-nucleotide, which are vastly slower than their Java counterparts. Also, almost all of the GHC programs use much less memory.