On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:55:36 BST Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It contains executable code but it is not an executable in > > > the sense you don't directly feed it to exec(2). A lisp > > > > in the script you gave earlier > > #!/usr/local/bin/cmucl -script > > (format t "Hello, World!~%") > > cmucl is directly executable but that's presumably the original > > lisp image; where is the new "core image" mentioned that makes > > the script run quickly? > > cmucl is directly executable but it has only enough > intelligence to load a big lisp.core, which contains all the > smarts. > > Right, then (format t "Hello, World!~%") basically gets "read" then compiled then executed right? (thinking REPL here) Right? At least that's how SBCL works based on my understanding.
