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Re:Scripting in Common Lisp by TeMPOraL on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:53PM (#19056496)
SBCL mostly. I probably should give GCL a try here. SBCL is fast as hell once it starts up, and bare SBCL starts up quickly, but once you add Quicklisp and start loading external systems, the startup time gets noticeable - though again, this gets reduced quickly iff you dump a binary of your image with dependencies already loaded. The one CL script I wrote that I actually use[0] (for controlling Hue lamps) I have dumped into binary just to cut down startup time to below the point I notice.

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[0] - https://github.com/TeMPOraL/hju/

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Re:Scripting in Common Lisp by agumonkey on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:12PM (#19056708)
SBCL does have a tiny delay (akin to a raw JVM). CLISP is near interactive though. But that's without quicklisp.
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