There are 1980's papers about Lisp compilers competing with Fortran compilers, unfortunately with the AI Winter, and the high costs of such systems, people lost sight of it.
Well, I imagine at the time they had some LISP implementations that were very well tuned for specific high end machines, which essentially duplicated Fortran functionality. This is difficult to do for general purpose Lisps like SBCL. It was also probably very expensive.