Reducing the size of Common Lisp binary

Question

The SBCL created stumpwm is greater than 40 MB, which is too big just for a Window Manager. The C produced DWM is about 30K.

We donot need a complete CL environment, How can i make stumpwm smaller ?

Sincerely !

There are very capable WM out there that don't require an entire environment, like xmonad (you need GHC to compile it). The reason you would pick stumpwm would be that you would also use the running Lisp image for other purposes, not just the WM. Anyway, 40MB is not that much, you shouldn't worry about it, otherwise you should also worry of having a big X server running for just "painting" over the screen, incredibly giant web browsers, enormous media players, etc. — sbenitezb
– sbenitezb, Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 2:03
Duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/11036070/lisp-binary-size — danlei
– danlei, Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 6:11
For all intent and purposes, you could consider the CL image as the JVM of Java. — sbenitezb
– sbenitezb, Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 13:26
You can release your application as a bundle without caring about anything else, provided the customer platform supports your CL implementation. Sure, with Java you only include some JARs and that maybe all. But it's not that bad to include the entire CL image (it's only a couple MB in this age of GB). Two different approaches. Also, I've seen a lot of Java applications that also include their own JVM just in case the customer doesn't have it, or the version installed is incompatible with the one used by the application,specially with older JVM. In the end of the day, it doesn't matter at all. — sbenitezb
– sbenitezb, Commented Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04

m2ym · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-10 12:51:16Z

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SBCL supports compressed core images since 1.0.52. See http://xach.livejournal.com/295584.html for details.

answered Sep 10, 2012 at 12:51

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