Using CL with Linux or Hurd

Michael Korns mkorns@ix.netcom.com
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:33:09 -0700


Rainer,

> >Well... I think you would be better off considering Scheme or a
> >smaller, layered Lisp such as EuLisp.  A microkernel implemented in
> >CL would probably be about 8meg...
> 
> That almost twice the size of PowerPC (RISC!) MCL. MCL is around
> 5.2 MB on my disk (incl. shared libs). This includes
> editor, listener, backtrace, compiler, interpreter,
> inspector, ...

This is a very good point. For instance, the entire AgentBase Version 2.0
binary footprint is 1.3 meg. This includes object database, compiler, VM,
etc.