Subject: Re: saving image with cmucl (for portable allegroserve app)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:51:18 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <NYKdnej_L4f7oKfeRVn-oA@speakeasy.net>
David <hhdave@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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| This is what I really like about doing this kind of thing in Lisp -
| being able to fix/enhance the server without stopping it from running.
| Obviously a certain amount of care has to be taken, but I test
| significant things on another copy first, and I've had remarkable
| success in not killing the live server so far.
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Ditto. I just added [after lots of testing on a development mirror,
of course!] a major feature to a production web app [Apache + CMUCL +
PostgreSQL] for which the Lisp image has been running continuously since
December, 2004. It was indeed nice to not have to shutdown/restart...  ;-}


-Rob

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