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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> Lisp spends an awful lot of time checking the arguments, what C
> generated code doesn't do since the types are checked at compile time.

... says the man who implemented an entire container library using void*
pointers and essentially no type checking.