Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Fri Jul 21 07:25:36 EDT 2017

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On Jul 21 2017, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> How implausible is it to write out the actual memory image of a loaded
> Python process?

That is what Emacs does, and it causes them a lot of trouble. They're
trying to move away from it at the moment, but the direction is not yet
clear. The keyword is "unexec", and it wrecks havoc with malloc.

Best,
-Nikolaus
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