Re: [Sbcl-help] Trying to understand foreign libraries

[Waldek H. <he...@ma...>]

Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> 
> On 19 October 2010 16:54, Teemu Likonen <tli...@ik...> wrote:
> 
> > It seems that I don't even have to load libraries every time when
> > loading an SBCL image. Just load foreign libraries once in the
> > image-creation session. The saved SBCL image will load foreign
> > libraries automatically when it's started. This was a bit unexpected
> 
> If you load a foreign libraries and then save a core, then the same
> set of libraries will be loaded on startup -- the assumption is that
> they were there for a reason.
>

What happens if libraries are absent when the image starts?  My program
want to use a library if present, but if absent then use alternative
(slower) code.


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