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Re:Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp by lispm on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:27AM (#13424502)
SBCL does treeshaking? I thought it just dumps the image.
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Re:Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp by throwaway91111 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:35AM (#13427635)
Well that would explain it. Any idea why they don't tree shake?
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Re:Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp by lispm on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:39PM (#13446421)
Because no one wrote one. There were some attempts but nothing which would work now. Delivering small applications does not seem to be a focus of SBCL users.

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2005-07-06.html

There is also the possibility to compress the image. See :compression option when saving an image:

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#index-g_t_0040sbext_007bsave_002...

Commercial Lisp implementations like LispWorks and Allegro CL have a treeshaker for delivery, but that's not too surprising, since these products are for developers of applications and the users pay for such features.

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