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> Perhaps it could be a good fit for serverless functions. I was thinking of that too. :) If you're interested in the technical mechanism, it's possible to lo

by btrask 6y ago

> Perhaps it could be a good fit for serverless functions. I was thinking of that too. :) If you're interested in the technical mechanism, it's possible to load a core dump and resume execution. I found https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234235/http://geocities.com/asimshankar/checkpointing/ https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234235/http://geocities.... which explains the (surprisingly complex) process of resuming from a core dump. Also see https://criu.org/ https://criu.org/ and https://checkpointing.org/ https://checkpointing.org/

llimos 6y ago
Cool, very interesting! That just convinces me even more that it's better to leave the OS out of it and let each language's runtime figure out its own way of serializing its state and restoring it for a second invocation.