Re: Short functions

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> 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)

Still, I keep hoping for a clever way to allow explicit avoidance of
heap allocation for those cases where the coder can be bothered to
make extra efforts for that.


        Stefan