The SPEC people who develop benchmarks for CPU's that are used extensively
in the development of these processors are now actively looking for _new
benchmarks_.
Hopefully, we can replace the current stupid XLisp benchmark with something
that is more sophisticated and realistic (and bigger).
If you want your stuff to run fast in the future, this would be a pretty
good time to submit benchmarks to these guys.
_Speak now or forever* hold your peace_. (* Well, at least for a few years.)
See
<http://www.specbench.org/osg/cpu98/search.html>
for more details.