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Lisp is definitely not a slow language: you can handle the crazy rate of 20 requests/second on a multi-core server!

They are only using one core. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116987 for verification.

Ooops, yes, you are right, sorry. Then I guess it's a pretty decent rate for a Core2 duo.

If you choose to. We pushed north of 800 r/s in production, and just shy of 4k in our LAN, that's using stock hunchentoot with just mere customization.

This guy here broke the 10k barrier:

http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-c10k

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