1. Re: Checkpoint
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Nov 02, 2001
It's not the same. Flush() works for files. I was thinking about *internal*
data, that is, objects. Of course this can be simulated, writing all objects
to a file, but this has to be done specifically for each program, and there
is not a general way of doing it.
----- Original Message -----
From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Checkpoint
>
>
> Only thing we have that's similar is FLUSH( ), I would'nt hold my breath
> for what your asking for....
>
> Euman
> euman at bellsouth.net
>
> > Rob:
> > I think that it would be very useful the ability to write a checkpoint
or
> > snapshot to disk at a certain point in the program, so that if, for
example,
> > the power fails, it can be reinitiated at the point of failure without
> > losing the computations already done. It will serve also some other
> > purposes, like adjoining data such as bitmaps to the code. Probably this
> > will need also a function that can check if a declared variable has been
> > initialized or not.
>
>
>
