Flux toolkit as LispOS base

[Rainer Joswig]

At 18:45 Uhr -0500 2.5.1997, Tim Pierce wrote:


>Here is what Arthur's response means to me: if our initial

>approach is to link a Unix kernel with a Lisp interpreter


Better avoid the word "interpreter" these days, when

most of the people are using optimizing Lisp compilers.


>> As someone mentioned, it is difficult to get started writing code

>> with a persistent object system when you don't have one.

>> However, ACL has a "dumplisp" capability that saves the state of

>> an entire Lisp process.  So transient CLOS objects can be saved this
way.

>

>Neat!  Can Franz contribute Allegro source to help make this

>happen?


This no rocket science. Most Common Lisp systems can save

a process state. Genera can do it incrementally with

the possibility to optimize the disk layout of the saved world

for faster access later on.


This stuff is highly implementation specific...

In MCL I do: (save-application "ccl:mcl" :init-file "init2").


Heiko Kirschke has written a freely available object store for ACL

and LW.



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