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Re: binary interface
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Keisuke Nishida |
Subject: |
Re: binary interface |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:42:24 -0500 |
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At Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:27:25 +0100 (MET),
Dirk Herrmann wrote:
>
> BTW: Now that a mechanism for writing objects binary exists, are there
> yet any benchmark results telling us about the benefits with respect to
> size and loading time? If these are not significant, we should re-think
> the idea of adding support for binary-writing, and instead take a look at
> SRFI-10 as a means to store and read arbitrary data, potentially combined
> with the (PROGN (SETF A (1 #1=(A B C))) (SETF B (2 #1#))) style for
> denoting circular structures. After all, adding the possibility to binary
> read and write objects is a big change, and its usefulness still needs to
> be proven.
(Just a quick response.) I want to load bytecode using mmap so that
several processes can share the same memory. Isn't it a good reason
enough?
Kei