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Question, how does this compare/contrast to “image based persistence” as used by e.g., most Smalltalk and certain Lisp based VMs?

It is equivalent, as are the pre-XML MS Office file formats which were essentially dumps of the document in memory.

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and write(2)/WriteFile a struct to disk.”