I have no idea how they do it, but Common Lisp compilers like SBCL and CCL compile each function incrementally, as you write them, ready to be played with in th

I have no idea how they do it, but Common Lisp compilers like SBCL and CCL compile each function incrementally, as you write them, ready to be played with in the REPL. This seems like a complex task in a language that doesn’t have the idea of an “image” that Smalltalk and Lisp do.