Re: shrinking clisp at build

On 2017-10-10 07:23 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> > is it possible to shrink a clisp system during a from scratch build?
>> > i really don't need 'clos', 'ffi', "readline support" for the work i
>> > intend to do
> 
> A Common Lisp implementation has a certain minimum size, in particular 
> because
> CL as a language has a certain size. clisp is one of the smaller CL
> implementations, and surely the one with the smallest memory 
> requirements.
> If you want something smaller than clisp, probably you want a language
> different from Common Lisp?
>   - You could try a copy of clisp from 1993; it did not include CLOS at
>     that time. But you will have a lot of trouble to make it work on
>     today's systems.
>   - Or you could try a different language. Maybe ISLisp (which has an
>     object system, but a smaller one), or Scheme (Guile if you want
>     something modern, or SIOD if you want something small).

true, i am running with zenlisp (http://www.t3x.org/files/zenlisp.zip).
thanks,

~mayuresh


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