This means the original author is clueless. Executable for my small CL program is 44K for the FASL file and a one-liner shell script to run it. This is very sim

This means the original author is clueless. Executable for my small CL program is 44K for the FASL file and a one-liner shell script to run it. This is very similar to the java numbers. The original author chose to dump the entire development environment including the compiler, into one single executable -- this is sometimes interesting, but I don't see why he did that. He doesn't seem to do it for Java or Python.