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		nerdponx on Feb 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiling a Lisp (2020) As far as I understand, the SBCL compiles each function separately, and can fall back to very slow codepaths in doing so. Getting peak performance out of Common Lisp takes some effort.

kagevf on Feb 2, 2024 [–]

Wouldn't that just be while developing using the repl? I would think compile-file would compile the whole file, not just 1 function at a time ...?

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