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Subject: Re: Eager garbage collection
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:52:26 -0500
> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>, Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> 
> In contrast the C version is clear and direct, so I think I'm pretty
> happy with the C version.

Indeed, I see no good reason to move this part to Lisp, especially
since it is all too easy to trigger GC from Lisp implementation of GC
without noticing.