Re: [Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Persistent Python - a la Smalltalk
On Sep 18, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Godson Gera wrote:
Twisted has some feature like that implemented using pickles or some thing. It meant to save the state of the program during restart. I am not sure if that's what you are after. http://twistedmatrix.com
Actually, the Twisted developers also found this to be a terrible idea, and doesn't really do it any more. I definitely understand the appeal of such a system, but it has far too many problems to work well in Python, and even in Smalltalk (which was built from the start to work like this) it was the source of a number of long-term systematic problems with the ecosystem. -glyph
Isn't this kind of thing (Like everything) possible today with Common Lisp?
I seem to recall reading about a CL app a while back that was basically a
persisted run-time state. The downside from what I read was that
memory usage was high and could get very high with inconsistent GC
intervals.
On 18 September 2011 20:33, Glyph Lefkowitz
On Sep 18, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Godson Gera wrote:
Twisted has some feature like that implemented using pickles or some thing. It meant to save the state of the program during restart. I am not sure if that's what you are after. http://twistedmatrix.com
Actually, the Twisted developers also found this to be a terrible idea, and doesn't really do it any more. I definitely understand the appeal of such a system, but it has far too many problems to work well in Python, and even in Smalltalk (which was built from the start to work like this) it was the source of a number of long-term systematic problems with the ecosystem.
-glyph
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