15:39:30Bikeremembered the fasl format doesn't have random-states, but then, how could it, in any remotely portable way. that's annoying.
15:50:40yitziIncless has the same problem...although it can punt to the implementation to implement print-object... or do contionals for each implementation.
18:06:05jcowanThe representation of a random-state must exist, but is quite deliberately not portable.
23:30:47hayleymoon-child: Another thing is how long walking the heap could take for a gigantic heap, e.g. for CLOSOS. But there I guess you can play tricks with paging, and trip the read barrier only when loading in new pages.
23:33:56hayley(Tracing a disk would also get exciting, but I'll ignore that for now.)