Subject: Re: Lisp, the incarnation of expressiveness ...
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/05/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3136210989117825@naggum.no>

* Lieven Marchand <mal@bewoner.dma.be>
| Is there a limit on the number of allocated stuff like that? The main
| problem I always saw was that if your OS had a limit, you could reach
| that limit before garbage collection. But I agree when that's not the
| case it can be useful.

  if the OS has such a limit, you should get an OS, or make the functions
  that allocate such objects cause a garbage collection, if you can't get
  an OS.  other people's limitations are to be overcome, not succumbed to.

#:Erik
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