So in the end, a vanilla CL implementation is still slower than all the work that went into the Clojure version? I love SBCL, and I am rediscovering Lisp after

So in the end, a vanilla CL implementation is still slower than all the work that went into the Clojure version? I love SBCL, and I am rediscovering Lisp after playing with a lot of other PLs. This is reassuring to me in my choice to go with SBCL and CL.