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Added documentation for stripped-scsh.image

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mainzelm 2003-02-17 13:52:53 +00:00
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@ -797,6 +797,17 @@ Notice that you are not allowed to pass arguments to the heap image's
top-level procedure (\eg, scsh) without delimiting them with \ex{-i}
or \ex{--} flags.
\subsection{Stripped image}
Besides the standard image \codex{scsh.image} scsh also ships with the
much smaller image \codex{stripped-scsh.image}. This image contains
the same code as the standard image but has almost all debugging
information removed. \codex{stripped-scsh.image} is intended to be
used with standalone programs where startup time and memory
consumption count but debugging an errors the scheme code is not that
important. To use the image the VM has to be called directly and the
path to the image must be given after the \ex{-i} argument.
\subsection{Inserting interpreter triggers into heap images}
{\scm}'s heap image format allows for an informational header:
when the vm loads in a heap image, it ignores all data occurring before