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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error on startup with latest guile-vm
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:14:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abd5klcm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3hc7dh7w1.fsf@pobox.com

Hi,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> While I'm rambling, I was looking at the ELF format today, inspired by
> razor (an *incredibly* fast package manager --
> http://github.com/krh/razor/wikis/razor-design), and we really should do
> more of that style of coding. Specifically regarding ELF, we should be
> able to dump tagged SCM values into an ELF file, which would help with
> undumping. And we should be able to write native code to ELF files. But
> this is all future work. There is lots of exciting stuff to do in this
> regard.

The key to serializability here is to store offsets within a region
instead of raw pointers (which is often referred to as "pointer
swizzling").  The problem is that there's a run-time overhead associated
with it: you can't just dereference pointers the usual way.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-13  2:41 error on startup with latest guile-vm Julian Graham
2008-10-14  7:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-10-15  5:17   ` Julian Graham
2008-10-15 21:21     ` Andy Wingo
2008-10-16  8:14       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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