[Ecls-list] Re: Startup time

Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll lisp at arrakis.es
Wed Aug 3 04:39:02 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:28 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:14 +0200, Maciek Pasternacki wrote:
> > Thanks.  One more question: why isn't sysfun.lsp compiled into cmp.fas
> > but distributed as interpreted Lisp?
> 
> Because it takes way less memory. Currently, data which is generated in
> a compiled module is _never_ garbage collected unless the associated
> module is.

Of course, I am referring to constants found in compiled code, not to
arbitrary data that might by produced at run time by the code that was
compiled.

Regards

Juanjo





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