>>>>> "mt" == Marcus Thiessel <marcus(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: mt> SL Baur writes: >> I now suspect dumping. I hate dumping, I hate it, I hate it, I hate >> it, I hate it. Why must we do something so stupid? mt> The question is what are the alternatives? Are there any at all? Absolutely. I don't know about Kyle's and Olivier's plans in details, but as long as you have precise memory management (hint, hint ...) you can just dump out a heap image and mmap it back in. This can even be done in such a way as to create architecture-independent heap images. I wrote code to do that for Scheme 48 which should show up in one of the next releases.