Re: [STUMP] Binary too big?

[Leslie P. Polzer]

>    I compiled stumpwm from CVS with sbcl; now it's my default window
> manager and does all what I need, it's wonderful in that aspect.

Just out of curiosity, what needs of you does it serve?


>    But I noticed that the binary itself takes up 32 Mb on disk, and
> the process 15 Mb after it starts. 32 Mb seems too much for me;
> compare for instance with ion2 (binary: 170 Kb, plus some libraries).

Keep in mind that you got a full-blown Common Lisp implementation
in there. It's the price for the flexibility. Ion (at least v3)
keep this stuff in liblua. Try compiling Ion statically and you
will notice how it will grow.


> It's even more than emacs!

Yes, emacs only has an elisp implementation aboard, and its core is written
in C.

  Leslie