Re: Dynamic loading. Again.

[John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

Vitaly Lugovsky wrote:
> 
>  I think there is a reason to implement dynamic loading of native compiled
> code for Ocaml (e.g. PIC code generation for some platforms),
> as well as dynamycally linked runtime code (I just managed to link
> bytecode runtime dynamically, so, it's not so impossible). It's just a
> way to kill Java. 

	My problem was different: in writing my Python interpreter, 
I needed to provide emulations for a set of dynamically loadable Python
extensions. 
I had to link them all in statically, even though every 'module' has the
same
signature: when I added modules, I had to update a string -> function
table.
No way I would want clients adding extensions to have to mess with the
source of the interpreter.

	Funny thing is, I can actually dynamically load and execute
_Python_ extensions under my Ocaml written interpreter! They're
written in C, and it's not so hard to write an Ocaml/C interface
that can do dynamic loading. 

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