From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 09:38:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA03784 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:38:36 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA03776 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:38:32 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA14902 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:17:09 -0500 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA03951; 2 Apr 95 10:00:19 CDT (Sun) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA03948; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 10:00:19 -0500 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199504021500.KAA03948@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: CLISP clarification, Was: New Snapshot...Good and Bad.... To: pw@snoopy.MV.COM (Paul F. Werkowski) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 10:00:18 -0500 (CDT) Cc: spaz@u.washington.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504021408.KAA00621@snoopy.mv.com> from "Paul F. Werkowski" at Apr 2, 95 10:08:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 484 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hmm, that beats GCL which starts life at 2.4 MB. Seems like > it used to be smaller than that. Anyhow bear in mind that > Lisp grows like a wart once it has to actually do anything. That's not inherent in Lisp. I was doing useful stuff in Lisp 1.5 on a PDP-11. I can't imagine what GCL could possibly have in it to require that sort of resource utilization. I've seen some of the syntactic sugar people have added to lisp, but surely all that stuff can be considered optional?