[gclist] why malloc/free instead of GC?

[Enrico Weigelt]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:11:07PM +0100, Juergen Christoffel wrote:

> Yes, generational GC for example. 
> 
> Back in the eighties and early nineties, when Symbolics introduced
> generational GC on their Lisp Machines, large programs did run faster with
> GC turned on than without GC when the "Ephemeral GC" (that was their name
> for Generational GC, IIRC) was turned on because this reduced working sets.
How does this one work ? 

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