Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se>: > But are Guile programs small?
They can be tiny because libguile-2.0.so, the interpreter, is a dynamic library and is installed on the computer. It's barely different from how compiled C programs can be a few kilobytes in size because libc.so is dynamic. Emacs is a lisp interpreter. As part of its installation, emacs dumps core, and the executable core file is installed as the editor we know and love. That way, the most useful lisp modules are already preloaded in the binary, executable image of the editor. On my machine, the emacs executable is 15 megabytes in size. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
