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

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:45:16PM -0500, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> 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*

That's much smaller than the 136KB mentioned in the post I was replying to.

" This time the size of the "w.exe" is 136KB.  It's very small.

Good job.

Now I really wonder what was going on in the 136KB, or whether 136KB 
was a typo. 

-- hendrik