[gambit-list] How can built a small as 5 Kbytes "Hello World" program ?

[Bradley Lucier]

On 01/19/2015 05:04 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:28:19 +0900, Ryuho Yokoyama wrote:
>
>>
>> This time the size of the "w.exe" is 136KB.  It's very small.
> How can this possibly be considered "small" for such a trivial task, let
> along *very* small?
>
> That's three times the entire RAM of the first machine I ran a HelloWorld
> program on!
>
> I really wonder what is filling up all those K!

On Ubuntu 14.10, with all updates:

    firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> cat hello.scm
    (display "Hello World!\n")
    firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> gsc -exe hello
    firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ll hello
    -rwxrwxr-x 1 lucier lucier 10536 Jan 19 21:44 hello*
    firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ./hello
    Hello World!
    firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> gsc -v
    \v4.7.3 20141017031152 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu "./configure
    '--enable-single-host' '--enable-shared'
    '--enable-multiple-versions' '--enable-char-size=1'"


Brad
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