Hello list,

I managed to get temp-file-less compilation with COMPILE working. And the hilarious things is: the classloader experiment was not necessary for this, as the compiler already behaved differently according the the value of *file-compilation*, and the use of loadCompiledFunction that troubled me was only done for the file compiler! So it's sufficient to move file creation from inner functions to outer ones and to pass an additional stream parameter to inner functions. Things can be made clearer - now the structure used to represent compilation results, class-file, is required to always have a pathname set, even when no file is created, for example. But I believe we're on the right track.

I cannot provide a patch now because I have still have to clean up the classloader changes. Btw I believe that the use of classloaders is a good thing even if it's not used for memory compilation (for one thing, it would play nicer with serialization of lisp functions, if we ever want that).

Cheers, Ale