From a7453031a0b3525e1c51899cecebf199ec5106b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mainzelm Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:52:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation for stripped-scsh.image --- doc/scsh-manual/running.tex | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/scsh-manual/running.tex b/doc/scsh-manual/running.tex index 7184bde..dd2639c 100644 --- a/doc/scsh-manual/running.tex +++ b/doc/scsh-manual/running.tex @@ -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