Isn't this similar to the problem Cloud Haskell had to solve to send code to another process to run?
Mike On Mar 24, 2013 5:06 PM, "Brandon Allbery" <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Corentin Dupont < > corentin.dup...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But I always bothered me that this state is not serializable... > > > I am not quite sure how to respond to that. You seem to be asking for > magic. > > That kind of state has never been sanely serializeable. Not in Haskell, > not anywhere else. The usual hack is to dump an entire memory image to > disk, either as an executable (see "gcore" and "undump"; also see how the > GNU emacs build dumps a "preloaded" emacs executable) or by dumping the > data segment as raw bytes and reloading it as such (which doesn't work so > well in modern demand paged executables; it can work better with a virtual > machine environment, and various Lisp and Smalltalk implementations dump > and reload their raw VM images this way). > > I would not be surprised if what you seem to be asking for turns out to be > yet another guise of the halting problem. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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