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Jonathan Bartlett |
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Ideas |
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Fri, 23 May 2003 15:18:49 -0700 (PDT) |
I'm new to the list. Here are some ideas that I have thought about
implementing if I have the time, but I thought I'd share them here in case
I'm way off-base.
1) A Guile dump()-type function
In order to get compile-time evaluation / run-time evaluation separation,
as well as to make executables work without the GUILE runtime, I was
thinking about implementing a dump/undump mechanism for GUILE.
Basically, have a procedure called (end-compile-time-evaluation)
which would do the following:
* Save the current continuation in a variable
* Set a global variable restart_from_continuation
* call dump()
Then, it would be undumped into a regular executable. The only change to
guile itself would be to check the restart_from_continuation variable when
starting and call the continuation if it is not null.
This would give the following advantages:
* Guile would not have to be distributed w/ the app
* Apps wouldn't have to wait for modules to load before starting, if
they load them before calling (end-compile-time-evaluation)
* No initialization would be necessary
* You can do real compile-time programming.
Anyway, it's something I've been thinking about working on, let me know if
I'm wrong-headed or someone has a better idea.
Jon
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