[cl-debian] Re: Anyone willing to package Cedilla?

[Faré]

On 9/16/05, Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Oh, by the way, I'm not a great fan of dumped images; they use up
> loads of space, and prevent the Lisp runtime from being shared between
> Lisp processes.
Genera could dump incremental images. We could do the same.
And/or fasls could be made into mixins of incremental image dumps.
stuff to be mmap'ed properly.

Except that mmap()ing probably won't do much good unless it's at
a fixed address. And then we might like to maintain a system-wide
(and then user-wide) mutual-exclusivity of fasl addresses.

Was it HP-UX that had a mechanism like that for its shared libraries,
ensuring that none of the system libraries clashed, so it could just
mmap() them with no memory- and time- hungry runtime linkage?

BTW, Juliusz is the one who first told me about Common Lisp;
though he was telling me more praises of Scheme, at that time.
Czesc, Iolo!

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