From: pa (Patrick A. O'Donnell)

Subject: Re: Global GC performance

Date: 1996-8-30 17:11


    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:20:39 -0700
    From: Steve Haflich <Franz.COM at smh>

       Date: Fri, 23 Aug 96 15:00:03 EDT
       From: Peter Shell <NL.CS.CMU.EDU at pshell>

		...		   For example, if you don't need to use
       the result of a mapcar function, then use do, dolist or times instead.

    Replacing MAPCAR with MAPC is equivalent, but requires less change to
    your source.

	...  using closures can be cons-intensive ...

    Starting in 4.3 closures are stack consed ...

I'd also like to note that both of these operations would be most
likely to generate short-lived objects, which the global gc would
never see.  Since my problem is with the global gc (scavenges seem
quick enough in general), these will not be likely to help.

		- Pat