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A comment on Pony – High Performance Actor Programming.

Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by kibwen on Monday May 04, 2015 @12:50AM (#9484372)
From the philosophy page: https://github.com/CausalityLtd/ponyc/wiki/Philosophy

  > No loadable code. Everything is known to the compiler.
What does "loadable" mean here? Does it imply no dynamic linking?
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Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming by n3otec on Monday May 04, 2015 @08:59AM (#9485824)
No. Dynamic linking is possible, for example with C libraries. 'No loadable code' means that a programs code is not modified during runtime, nor extended with new code (for example like java applets or RMI applications). We have been looking into hot code loading though.
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