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by orvr 4056 days ago
Wrong. In CL there is a well defined distinction between read time, compile time, load time and run time.
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Compile-time and load-time occur during run-time. The run-time context of anything already executed is available to subsequent compile-time and load-time contexts. Of course, these then further affect the run-time context going forward.

While these "*-time"s are distinguished, they can be invoked and interplay arbitrarily, unlike most other languages. It's all fundamentally run-time, in contrast to those, especially when considering threaded environments where compilation and run-time execution can happen simultaneously.