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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:23:53 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
> 
> 
> The last GC before dumping generates 200K calls to mark_object, of those
> 20K have Qt or Qnil as an argument.

I don't think this matters enough to bother: even if we consider GC
too slow (and I don't think so), this is only 10% of it, so even
reducing it to zero will give only a marginal speedup.