[ska]

Yes, but you start off with an incorrect premise, and it's hard to understand what point you are trying to make.

In a very typical lisp system, for example, exactly the same resources would be available at runtime as your original compile (in fact, the boundary between these two is pretty fuzzy and often might be the same process anyway)

Likewise, C++ typically doesn't have any runtime access to compilers at all, so what resources are available to them or not is a bit moot.

If the point is that you might deploy on a different machine or configuration, well - that's true, but I can't see the relevance.

You might be pointing out some oddities of Clojure, I suppose, but that's not a great model for "typical lisp".

[hellofunk]

Indeed my experience is mostly with Clojure, which I mentioned because my parent commenter referred to ClojureScript. Glad to know a "normal" lisp handles this differently.