[Ecls-list] ECLM 2008

[Mark Hoemmen]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
>  How do you think, is it possible/difficult to implement
>  Common Lisp with small memory demand (or adjust existing
>  implementation). Say, have running http server
>  requiring 200 kB? (or 1 MB).
>
>  Contemporary implementations (sbcl, ecl) use
>  tens of megabytes.

Doesn't SBCL do this because it preallocates a huge chunk of memory
for its heap?  SBCL has a startup option to adjust the initial heap
size, if I recall correctly.  I haven't checked for ECL.

mfh