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by brudgers 2354 days ago
Traditionally Lisp systems are incredibly easy to deploy by saving an image. Images are so different from what is practical in C or Java that I found it hard to wrap my head around. An image is a saved running state. It requires a runtime that allows interacitvity. Smalltalk, Common Lisp, and ML are all examples. Scheme based systems typically don't provide it...but like anything there are exceptions.

Some documentation about images in SBCL: http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Saving-a-Core-Image