[gclist] why malloc/free instead of GC?

Ken Anderson kanderson@bbn.com
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:19:04 -0500


At 02:49 PM 2/17/2003, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
>On a related note: people usually don't believe that modern ML (eg
>Ocaml) or Lisp (eg CMUCL) implementations can perform about as quickly
>as C (ie less than 2 times slower than C).

They can even be faster
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg01817.html