Re: Should we land Lisp reader optimizations?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "ms" == michael schuldt <address@hidden> writes:

ms> But in either case Ken seems to make it clear that it does not really
ms> matter - GC overhead is small when reading normal files and already
ms> minimized for the big .elc read

And in fact, the GC can make things faster, by quickly freeing temporarily
allocated memory that can be reused in a subsequent loop iteration. Although
it does take "work" to walk the heap and free objects, sometimes this work is
less than freshly allocating new temporary blocks at ever-new places on the
heap.

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