On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Mark Evenson evenson.not.org@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 24, 2011, at 22:42 , Alessio Stalla wrote
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I believe Faré's reason for starting a new image is to have it clean of any side-effects of previous compilations. Strictly speaking, this would only be possible if the JVM supported fork() or save-image, but unfortunately it doesn't and will probably never do. However, I have an idea for a compromise that would not get you a truly fresh new image, but could nevertheless create a new environment clean enough for most use cases. I don't have the time to go into details now, but that's definitely something I've been wanting to experiment with for some time.
Certainly sounds interesting. A FRESH-IMAGE contrib perhaps?
I will think about it. I should also note that with appropriate classloader manipulation you can already start multiple ABCL images in the same JVM, but that doesn't help much because each one will load from scratch and take a long time.