Out of curiosity, what makes Guile take up so much space? I considered using Guile as the scripting/extension language in some of our tools, but I couldn't get

Out of curiosity, what makes Guile take up so much space? I considered using Guile as the scripting/extension language in some of our tools, but I couldn't get over the large size and the number of additional dependencies it introduced. There's a certain irony to the idea that Guile was designed to be a TCL killer, and wound up being larger and harder to deploy.