felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) (01/19/89)
Incremental World is a nice feature, especially when you are dealing with huge worlds. I have been using this facility on the Symbolics Lisp Machines and have discovered lately that this feature is not available on a new lisp I am using: Sun Lisp 3.0 (Lucid). Considering that a SunLisp Full World is approximately 10 Megabytes (5 Mega for the basic world), it is very expensive to disksave any new stuff you built on it... Is it "almost impossible" to do? Or is it just that nobody thinks that it is necessary at this point? I have the feeling that this must be VERY difficult to implement because you need lot of book keeping, but it does not cost anything to ask... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue felix%AI.SRI.COM@UUNET.UU.NET MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Pourquoi tant de haine..." (Edika) "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)