Lisp is too slow? I find this hard to believe. SBCL is incredibly fast, allows run-time compiling, and if you dig in the source, actually is partially written i

Lisp is too slow? I find this hard to believe. SBCL is incredibly fast, allows run-time compiling, and if you dig in the source, actually is partially written in assembly for speed. That's in part why Duncan Temple-Lang and Ross Ihaka suggested it as a base for a new R implementation a while back (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3726 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3726).