The Slate image

[Brian Rice]

On Jan 9, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Shaping wrote:

>> Not quite. little.image isn't a saved image, it's a generated one. In 
>> fact, it's not even a full image. It only contains a handful of 
>> objects and one large block. The block generates all the objects and 
>> blocks that make up the system; that's why it takes time to start.
>
> Interesting.  So, the full set of objects is never stored with the 
> image, but is always reconstituted by some set of source statements?  
> If so, how does this source get created?  Is it just a record of every 
> statement I typed and evaluated before saving the image, or is it a 
> nicely factored and cleaned up version of this, or something else?

This is just >> what the bootstrap does <<. Saving the image does 
preserve a live snapshot of all the objects and stack activations. What 
you have is what gets saved (modulo garbage collection sweeps).

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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