[asdf-devel] Re: Question about MKCL support

[Faré]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
> JCB complains that requiring UIOP:RESTART-IMAGE causes MKCL somehow to
> end up sucking the compiler into programs, causing severe bloat.
>
> Can we provide an option to PROGRAM-OP that does *not* invoke
> RESTART-IMAGE, satisfying him, but keeping the default behavior that all
> applications restart identically?
>
Yes, that's totally legitimate and desirable as a non-default extension.

Now that ECL and MKCL support have been merged, it was easy enough to
implement this feature portably — test included (of course, before it
was tested, it was completely buggy).

Please try the program-system class with :no-uiop option in 3.1.0.105.

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