>>61
In Java, most of the code is type declaration, access specifiers and such, in Racket, like in Scheme and Lisp, it's 99% actual code. The code length is not the same as verbosity, or would you say that C is verbose because of all those
mallocs and
frees making the code look bigger?
Also, it is comparing Racket
to Java. Racket's code length is ½ of the Java one in the majority of cases.
Racket is also faster in that benchmark.
A fair comparition would be, though, comparing Racket with Java -server:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=racket&lang2=java, which is known to be faster than the client one (but being a resource hog) and, in fact, also faster than Racket.