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by 0xcde4c3db 2310 days ago
> The myth: Common Lisp scripts and binaries are hard to distribute; binaries are too big.

As far as I can tell, it's more like you have to pick one or the other. Distribution is easy if you don't mind distributing a 50 MB image (which is, of course, trivial for some applications and catastrophic for others). Most of the suggestions on reducing application size are essentially accounting sleight-of-hand that doesn't actually reduce the overall footprint (I'm reminded of the compressor that can "compress" any file by one byte... by moving the byte to the file name).