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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by throwaway7645 on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:40AM (#13666397)
How big is "hello world"
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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by shakna on Friday February 17, 2017 @05:39AM (#13667321) 

    (display "Hello, World!~n")
Comes on at 400kb for me under Gambit.

Gambit makes fast, small binaries. Unfortunately you pay for that with a lack of libraries.

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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by throwaway7645 on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:43AM (#13667539)
Now that is pretty nice. Something like that should always be in the kb range I think (preferred anyway).
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