Michael Weber: Random Bits and Pieces

...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list.

Kent M. Pitman

Save Lisp And Die

2007-03-05 :: /programming/lisp
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Christian Lynbech writes about the script he uses to build his lisp images. As he notes, dumping a custom image is a real time-saver.

Compared to his, my own sbcl-save-core is rather on the low-tech side of the spectrum, so I thought I'd share it as well. As the name suggests, it works for SBCL only.

No surprises in there, except that before calling SB-EXT:SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, I push :michaelw-core onto *features*. This ends up in the newly generated core. I conditionalize on it in my ~/.sbclrc, not to repeat some parts of the extra initialization performed for a vanilla image.

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