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Question, how does this compare/contrast to “image based persistence” as used by e.g., most Smalltalk and certain Lisp based VMs?

• webmaven 5y ago
  It is equivalent, as are the pre-XML MS Office file formats which were essentially dumps of the document in memory.
  • strlen 5y ago
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and write(2)/WriteFile a struct to disk.”