Kim-Ee Yeoh
Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Something I've wanted to experiment with for a long time and never got round to is writing CAFs back to the load module at the end of a run (if they're small enough or took a long time to evaluate).
If RAM was treated as an extension of non-volatile storage instead of the other way round, we'd already be there.
Not exactly
Put another way, would "suspending" program to disk achieve the same results?
No, because the state in RAM includes not only CAFs but data that depends on the history of the present run. If you only write CAFs back, running the modified module gives the same effect as running the unmodified version. Resuming a suspended programme has the effect of continuing from where you left off. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk