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- From: lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
- Subject: Lisp image size (was Re: Lisp syntax beauty? (was Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?))
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:07:04 GMT
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- In article <dfs.727729181@crusher>, dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- wrote:
- > Actually, it wouldn't be too bad in C (if you can ignore the
- > fixnum/bignum problems :-)) I agree that Lisp has many built-in
- > conveniences. Maybe too many - we have Allegro Common Lisp on our Sun
- > network, and the image is 11MB long. That's a huge overhead, and
- ^^^^
- > anyone supporting the full Common Lisp spec probably couldn't do it in
- > much less.
-
- Ye Gods! And we're complaining about the 2.5MB size of MCL!!!
- [Yes, it's full Common Lisp spec.]
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