Thomas F. Burdick <tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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| Dumping an image of a running Lisp server application is not the
| world's most common thing, it's a bit dangerous for a newbie from
| ST[*], but it's sometimes a good idea, and certainly possible and not
| rocket science.  Here's how you would go about dumping an image of a
| typical web application: ...
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It's also useful if you're trying to use Lisp for short-lived
processes such as CGI scripts and specialized system utilities.
Running a custom image is usually *far* faster than loading up
all the libraries your app needs.

And if you have a bunch of related apps [such as the above-mentioned
CGI scripts] that can share the same image, then execution is likely
to be even faster since your operating system will cache the Lisp
executable and image file in its buffer cache.


-Rob

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