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Re:Chicken Scheme 5.0 by bjoli on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:29AM (#18405264)
Guile or Chibi depending on what I want. Guile is about 2mb and seriously fast. Chibi is tiny and not very fasy.
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Re:Chicken Scheme 5.0 by zelly on Thursday November 08, 2018 @08:03AM (#18405945)
Do you statically link Guile? Guile is a pleasure to work with, but I was under the impression that you can’t embed Guile because it’s GPL.
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Re:Chicken Scheme 5.0 by admax88q on Thursday November 08, 2018 @08:27AM (#18406073)
Guile ls LGPL.

You can statically link to LGPL libraries so long as you also provide your program in "object form" so that the user can re-link their program with a different version of guile.

See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...

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Re:Chicken Scheme 5.0 by nrclark on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:37PM (#18408049)
Surprised to see Guile weighing in at 2mb - my experience with it on Linux was a much larger install. What makes the Linux packages so much larger out of curiosity? I profiled it at more like 50-80mb when I compiled it a couple of months ago.
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Re:Chicken Scheme 5.0 by bjoli on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:05PM (#18410021)
I meant weight as in extra RAM usage for the application I use it in.
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