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People gave up on using "benchmarks" as the measure of a language's efficiency long ago, for several reasons. Probably the most important one is that they're too easy to manipulate. There was a great site, years ago, where you could choose your favorite language and it would generate benchmark results that showed that your language was the fastest. And the benchmark results weren't fake, they were just tailored to the strengths of whatever language you chose.
The only benchmark that really matters is what people do with languages in the real world. Whether
/prog/ likes it or not, C and C++ are still the standard for things where performance matters. When Modern Warfare 15 is written in Clojure, then we'll all acknowledge the fact that functional programming is really swell.
Boo hoo, I know that pointing out the fact that the "industry" still uses C and C++ is considered a troll here, but hey, suck a dick.