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Subject: Re: load and use a ".o" file?
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From: j-anthony@rcn.com (Jon S. Anthony)
Date: 29 Dec 2003 17:45:32 -0500
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
> : Hmm. Do those compiled versions include the ability to create new code
> : at runtime, where the new code is also compiled, not interpreted?
> 
> If I have understood Jon correctly, there are Lisp compilers without
> an interpreter, and with the ability to load compiled code, so
> I'd guess, yes.

Yes.  Though also having an interpreter as part of the implementation
does not change this (it's orthogonal to the discussion).

> (I think I've seen the thing, too.)

Most do this, so you probably did :-)

/Jon