>Java: The JRE on my system is 98 megabytes, so a Java application to run on Win32 will be 98 megabytes plus the application code. Even if you compile your app

>Java: The JRE on my system is 98 megabytes, so a Java application to run on Win32 will be 98 megabytes plus the application code. Even if you compile your app with GCJ, libgcj is 33 megabytes. > Now, you could argue that the size of this stuff isn't relevant because it isn't specific to your hypothetical Common Lisp implementation of BitTorrent, but could also be used by whatever other Common Lisp programs the user has installed. But you would be treating a very-low-probability event as if it were normal. I am pretty sure the vast majority of users already have the JRE installed, and if they don't it's a download that's around 15mb.