Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-04 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:50:19 -0600, mikel evins wrote: Is the bytecode format platform-independent? Yes. Is it documented? I guess I probably won't need to know gory details about the bytecode format, but I could

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-04 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:35:42 -0600, mikel evins wrote: The reason I ask is that MacScheme made it easy to have most of an app compiled to bytecode, which was very compact and reasonably efficient, but to optionally

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Stephen Bloch bl...@adelphi.edu wrote: On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:54 AM, mikel evins mev...@me.com wrote: Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source files

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 20 minutes ago, mikel evins wrote: Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source files are somehow mutually exclusive. They're

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Um, no, I don't think that this is similar. Okay. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev