From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-08-19T14:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What Ruby needs.

On Sunday 18 August 2002 05:44 pm, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:39:31 -0500, "Shashank Date" <ADATE@kc.rr.com>
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> And what is the objection to a core?
> A core is just a snapshot of the runtime.

Yes, usually a very, very, large snapshot.  And usually full of crap that is 
not needed for the current project.

> It is pretty handy when it takes you a half hour to start up ruby
> and get it to the point where you were last time.

Wow.  What are you doing that it takes you a half hour to start up ruby?

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Don't get me wrong.  I love ST: browsing, debugging, refactoring, etc.  But to 
me the image was a big pain in the butt.