> CL has a very similar degree of dynamism and remains fast.

But not the dynamic parts remain "really" fast. Common Lisp introduced very early a lot of features to support optimizing compilers -> some of those reduce "dynamism". Code inlining (-> inline declarations), file compiler semantics, type declarations, optimization qualities (speed, compilation-speed, space, safety, debug, ...), stack allocation, tail call optimization, type inferencing, ...