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Bytecodes compiler used in this build from repl is one-pass with very little optimizations, so it is not surprising. Natively compiled code is much faster.

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Should it be possible to implement an optimization compiler? so that compiling the code in the web page produces results similar to ECL or sbcl?

With enough code - yes. But not right now. You may precompile to native though.

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