Re: reducing lisp programs' size

["rudolf mittelmann" <rm@cast.uni-linz.ac.at>]

In message <ddyerD5Jnzr.5E8@netcom.com>  writes:
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> 
> Treeshaking has real effect, but risks introducing bugs, has little
> effect on performance, and marginal effect on size.
> 
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Marginal? It depends...

>From 1989 to 1992 there was an interesting Common Lisp for the
Macintosh from UK-based Procyon Research. (It was the first
commercial CLOS implementation.)
When making standalone applications, it was possible to reduce
the progs size from 3.5 MB to 800KB (without CLOS) or 1.2MB
with CLOS. However, the more of Lisp you used in your prog,
the less savings were possible: Big portions were
the reader, the format package, and some others.

rm


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rudolf mittelmann

systems theory
Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria Europe