At Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:44:38 -0600, mikel evins wrote: > I'm working on a Lisp. Recently I've been tinkering with an implementation in > Racket. Racket makes it impressively easy to write. > > I need it ultimately to be an old-fashioned kernel+image Lisp, with a > platform-specific kernel executable and a platform-independent heap image. > > I'm aware that's not how Racket is designed. The question is: how hard would > it be to use Racket to build such a thing? Easy enough to be worth trying? > Too > hard to consider? Can someone see a way to do it that would be easy enough to > be worth a try? > > I can imagine building something that might work out of the existing support > for serialization and fasl files, but would be interested to know if folks > more knowledgeable than I can see how to do it better.
I don't see a better approach than that one. Long ago, we tinkered with platform-specific images based on memory dumps, and I can see some potential to make that work again via GC support. But it wouldn't be easy, it's especially low-level hacking, and it probably would not work out for platform-independent images. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
