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I personally, have been waiting centuries for our robotic overlords to improve the runtime performance of lisp. Now I can wait some more!

Check out the Stalin Scheme[1] compiler which can produce code faster than hand-written C (it's a whole-program optimizing compiler targetting C).

Nice, but wasn't chicken scheme the flagship of scheme-to-c compilers? http://www.call-cc.org/

Racket and SBCL are very fast.