It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.