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>>>>> "Bernard" == Bernard URBAN <Bernard.Urban@meteo.fr> writes:
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ McManus <mcmanr@eq.gs.com> writes:
Russ> Along these lines, I have thought that a fruitful way of
Russ> improving guile's startup performance would be to first
Russ> build a basic guile, and then that guile could invoke the
Russ> hobbit compiler to compile the guile init files.
Russ> A similar architecture would work with unexec, but it would
Russ> probably be less friendly when attempting to build a special
Russ> application that includes all of guile, including the init
Russ> files.
Bernard> On several platforms, unexec and dynamic loading cannot
Bernard> live together.
Why is that so? Can you please breifly explain? (and maybe point me
at a book)