[armedbear-devel] In-memory compilation status

[John Pallister]

Hi Alessio, thanks for that explanation (and sorry for my potentially
ill-informed questions...).

So if the (compressed) FASL format is a Zip archive containing the
class files, would it be worth compiling local functions to an
in-memory Zip/JAR image along with the top-level forms' classes, and
then COMPILE-FILE can write the whole JAR to disk as the FASL (and
everyone else can discard it)? (This may be like what happens now; the
Wiki page on FASL formats is a bit ambiguous, and I admit I haven't
looked through the ABCL code yet.)

Anyway, on the strength of this brief discussion I can/should/will now
go away and poke through the code. If/when I come up with anything
interesting I shall report back to the list.

Cheers,

John :^P