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Re: Proposal for a Guile binary file format
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- Subject: Re: Proposal for a Guile binary file format
- From: Ceri Storey <cez at nomorespam dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:41:30 +0000
- References: <199911180022.BAA04193@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:22:19AM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt denied that:
}The rationale for the "permanent" and "standard" classes is that
}"permanent" memory can avoid repeated consing or calls to malloc while
}"standard" memory can be GC:d. "permanent" is good for source code
}while "standard" is good for expressions.
For permanent storage, wouldn't it be a better idea to mmap the sections into
memory? That way, the os can do the loading on demand, like shared libraries.
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