[Ecls-list] Re: Startup time

[Julian Stecklina]

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:28:42 +0200
Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <lisp at arrakis.es> wrote:

> This reminds me, that at some point I also found it a neat idea to
> distribute source code in ZIP files and make this a new loadable
> format for ECL.

Having some kind of quasi-standardized binary format would allow many
cool things. I.e. a Smalltalk-like development environment. But it
would not be very useful if ECL were the only CL implementation to
support this. 

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

LISP has survived for 21 years because it is an approximate local
optimum in the space of programming languages. - John McCarthy (1980)