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Appel, A.W., "Garbage collection can be faster than stack allocation", Information Processing Letters, 25, 4, pp. 275-279, June 17, 1987. Google
275 ;;Quote: if enough memory is available, cheaper to garbage collect a cell than to explicitly free it
276 ;;Quote: the copying garbage collection algorithm only touches reachable cells; independent of garbage
277 ;;Quote: achieve 'free' garbage collection by using 8x the memory
278 ;;Quote: if keep free-space pointer in a register, then allocating a cons cell from heap same as from stack
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