I don't think it's fair to assume that TheMagicHorsey was basing his evaluation on the microbenchmarks themselves.
The real story here is that people are working on a number of new libraries/modules/tools for doing web development in CL — the benchmarks (as you correctly point out) are a minor detail.
The real story here is that people are working on a number of new libraries/modules/tools for doing web development in CL — the benchmarks (as you correctly point out) are a minor detail.