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From: donham@linex.com (Jake Donham)
Subject: Re: State saving?
In-Reply-To: smurf@noris.de's message of 23 Mar 1996 13:47:19 +0100
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"Matthias" == Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> declares:

    Matthias> Systems like Smalltalk can save their state directly to
    Matthias> disk, and restart where they left off.

    Matthias> I need a Scheme which is able to do this. I also need to
    Matthias> multitask (cooperatively), but given continuations I
    Matthias> think that is an easy enough exercise.  ;-)

ELK (the Extension Language Toolkit) can dump a running interpreter
with all of its state into a new executable. It's pretty slick. See
the Scheme Repository.

Jake
