Re: pining for the good old days of yore

I guess what I really want is some version of:

A real classical saved state includes a snapshot of the
state of the running code, so that when you restored
one, it resumed execution where it was when it was saved.

As you say, the old 'copy core to disk' save_state had plenty of issues. 
But some messier-under-the-covers modern version of it would be grand.


And thanks for the memories - I remember the old Apollo machines.
The porter who was moving Innovative Software's stuff to them sat next to me.

Saving stuff out as readable text has a lot of advantages.
I once developed what I fondly hoped might become a
"portable Prolog term binary format", only to discover
that plain text with minimal spaces was nearly as good.
Never underestimate the power and debuggability of plain text.


I'm currently working on a project that involves streaming data from multiple RGBD cameras, and I've debated sending that as ascii.