On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
>
> Stavros, Ray:
>
> I'm uncertain what my goals might be because I don't yet know enough about
> the subject. I was only asking what the possibilities were.
>
> I experiment with different things on my computer to see what I can do and
> this looked interesting because my experience with lisp core images (not
> much experience though) has been that they tend to be very large. I would
> be much happier with common lisp written applications if I could get past
> the very large core images required for executables.
>
I don't think the executables are really any smaller than the lisp images.
And by modern standards, a lisp image isn't so large anymore.
>
>
> Ray wrote:
> Maxima running with gcl does this. But as Richard points out, it contains
> gcl (including compiler) and maxima all in one. Maxima with cmucl can also
> create a "standalone" executable.
>
> I was unaware that gcl already did this, but I think it makes sense
> because it was very fast on my computer when I used it.
>
Your sense is wrong. The fact that gcl was an executable doesn't make it
any faster. Sbcl and cmucl are as fast (roughly) as gcl (was) and they use
images.
>
> I sometimes attempt to write code that does some mathematics and rather
> than re-inventing the wheel I thought it would/could be interesting to use
> already written open-source software such as portions of maxima (providing
> I could understand which portions I needed and had the okey-doaky to do so)
> in something I might try writing.
>
Maxima is gpl so you can do what you want with it as long as your stuff is
gpl. But maxima is pretty tangled together so it would be hard to extract
out a little part.
Ray