emacs running slow with clisp and ilisp

[Adam]

Hello,
I'm not wonder is

I've followed the excellent instructions as to how to setup an ide with emacs and clisp at http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/windows.html and by I used the sample .emacs found there file.

It all works fine in that when I invoke clisp (F5) clisp runs, but very very slowly. The reaction time to keyboard input is slower than a very slow thing.

Is there any way to speed it up, or is a 500mhz machine with 256mb memory not really up to it?

Thanks 

Adam