13:19:38phoeshould be? why would allocating N images from the start and writing to them be much faster than copying an array N times after writing to it?
16:02:38fiddlerwoaroofdxtr: the other thing that might be happening is that you're looking at the *inferior-lisp* buffer instead of the *slime-repl sbcl* buffer
16:02:58fiddlerwoaroofmy inferior-lisp just has the * prompt.