I am not arguing that converting Emacs to Common Lisp is a good idea, but it would seem that much less low level C code would be required. Also, the startup ti

I am not arguing that converting Emacs to Common Lisp is a good idea, but it would seem that much less low level C code would be required. Also, the startup time for compiled and packaged SBCL applications is very fast because loading a prepared Lisp image file is very fast.