[racket] Expanding frozen Racket core - limitations of universal touring machine

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jukka Tuominen
<jukka.tuominen at finndesign.fi> wrote:
> Now, imagine the read-only OS was a snapshot of Racket+Linux+stuff, a few
> years ago.
>
> - Given the above, I wonder if there are any theoretical limits preventing
> to achieve all the same functionality that are in the current or future
> Racket versions, but only utilising the external data source? Some
> optimising issues are obvious, but other than that?

Racket has a back door via the FFI. You can get it to call arbitrary
code generated at runtime. This code can then extend the runtime in
arbitrary ways.

N.