Compilation doesn't seem to matter, performance-wise, when running pystone.py

[deepfire]

Roughly:

• (CLPYTHON:RUN #p"/usr/lib/python2.6/test/pystone.py" :compile nil :args '("pystone.py" "1000000"))
  Pystone(1.1) time for 1000000 passes = 28.630005
  This machine benchmarks at 34928.39 pystones/second
• (CLPYTHON:RUN #p"/usr/lib/python2.6/test/pystone.py" :compile t :args '("pystone.py" "1000000"))
  Pystone(1.1) time for 1000000 passes = 29.440002
  This machine benchmarks at 33967.387 pystones/second

As a contrast, this machine marks at roughly 90000 pystones with cpython 2.6.

[deepfire]

I forgot to add, that host Lisp is SBCL 1.0.40.

[metawilm]

(Sorry for the delay.)
SBCL is a compile-only implementation:
http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Compiler_002donly-Implementation
On e.g. Allegro CL compilation makes it run almost 5 times as fast.