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From: nancy@GRASP.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Nancy Orlando)
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Subject: Garbage Collection Suppression
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 08:32:41 EDT
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Are there any "accepted" methods of writing code that minimize a LISP's
tendancy to garbage-collect? I don't mean a switch to turn it off;
just a means of minimizing the need for it. I'm dealing particularly with
DEC VAX lisp. I have assumed that iteration as opposed to recursion was
one way; is this correct? Are there other techniques?

Nancy Sliwa
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