Re: Short functions

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

On January 6, 2025 12:25:27 PM EST, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> more efficient, we'd want to avoid both heap allocation and recursion,
>>> but sadly from ELisp the only way to allocate non-heap memory is via
>>> recursion.
>> Hopefully, generational GC will make heap allocation much less burdensome
>> and the need for stack allocation (and escape analysis) less pressing.
>
>+1 (and concurrent GC would also do the trick since we can generally
>assume that there are free cycles available on another core)

Generational will help with energy too though: unlike a concurrent collector, adding generational collection reduces the total work the collector does and doesn't just shift the work to another core.