I use SBCL for some scripting, and haven't found the overhead to be that bad just using #!/usr/bin/sbcl. For basic stuff, I just use zsh, so by the time I've s

I use SBCL for some scripting, and haven't found the overhead to be that bad just using #!/usr/bin/sbcl. For basic stuff, I just use zsh, so by the time I've switched to Lisp, the task is already at the point where startup time isn't a big factor. I do have some compiled programs I use, but IMO they're a little too big to be called scripts. An interesting idea would be the ability to dump a shared library of the core image, and then dump incremental changes as executable images that dynamically link to it.