Comment by girzel
7 years ago
Sure, I'm not saying these things can't be done, just that you get the distinct feeling that it isn't how Lisp was made to work. I might have been exaggerating about size, but 70 Mb is pretty damn big for a program that might not do all that much! I haven't ever used commercial Lisps, either.
A GUI-based 64bit 'hello world' application with LispWorks on the Mac is around 13MB in disk size.
A mocl application might start around 1 MB. But that's an unusual whole-lisp-program-to-c compiler.