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If the program is already running and it's not written in a way to handle changes in its source code, you're out of luck.

You can prepare the program to react to code changes, though. For example, you can make the child processes to read their source from a file every time and eval it (and maybe check the timestamp before to speed it up). Usual cautions about eval apply.

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by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 10, 2015 at 11:02 UTC
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      There's also Coding for OpenGL "live"

      Instead of reloading and recompiling the code before rendering each frame, you can reload and recompile between each job.

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