Re: [STUMP] Binary too big?

[Shawn Betts]

On 9/5/07, Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

   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.

   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).
It's even more than emacs!

   Therefore I would like to ask if that's normal.
   And if it is, can you add this question+answer to the
documentation? (Is there already a „FAQ" section somewhere?).

Hi Daniel,

I just created the FAQ today, so it doesn't have much on it. Feel
free to add your questions and I or someone will answer them.

http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FAQ

The size of the sbcl stumpwm binary is regrettably (I suppose
that's debatable) pretty big. If this bothers you, you can try
clisp. I believe it runs at around 6-8M. clisp is a bit tricky,
though, because most clisp packages are built with new-clx, the
clisp X library, which is very buggy unless you compile clisp
from CVS. clisp's alternative X library, mit-clx, runs stumpwm
fine.

A third option that I haven't tried is openmcl.

-Shawn