I also came across Scala's Swarm, making use serializable delimited continuations. Looks good! http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3485
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Michael Better <mbet...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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