Anybody done this

[Luke Gorrie]

Dave Love <d.love@REDACTED> writes:

> _Using_ unexec, say, isn't necessarily terribly difficult if you have
> it working on your system, though there are gotchas.

Aside - does Emacs just use unexec to create its standard "core" while
building itself, or can you-the-user use it whenever you like? If the
latter, how?

> Inferno virtualizes resources, including the machine, but I'm not
> aware that you can dump the VM.  (I assume there's no reason you
> couldn't use its protocol from Erlang, say with existing Inferno or
> Plan 9 servers.)  Has it been considered as an example of `conceptual
> integrity'?  <URL:http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/design.html>

Oh no! Don't get Joe started on the virtues of Styx again!
(Luckily he's away on holiday.)

-Luke