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Re:Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp by lispm on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:29AM (#13424511)
Some CL compilers even don't save an image. An extreme example is mocl. mocl applications for a 64bit iPad start at 1 MB size.

Other examples of CL compilers not saving an image are ECL and WCL.

The ECL manual had the terminology a bit wrong, but it actually does not dump an image.

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/static/manual/ch34.html#...

WCL:

https://github.com/wadehennessey/wcl

> For example, the executable for a Lisp version of the canonical ``Hello World!'' program requires only 20k bytes on 32 bit x86 Linux.

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