Re: reducing number consing

From: William D Clinger (cesuraSPAM_at_verizon.net)
Date: 12/19/03 

Date: 19 Dec 2003 12:44:01 -0800

Cliff Crawford <cjc26@cornell.edu> wrote:
> | Why? Is GC an issue here?
>
> I'm worried it will be, because in typical usage it will get called
> 100,000 - 1,000,000 times.

At 32 bytes per call, that's 32 megabytes of short-lived data.
In all likelihood, you're worrying about less than one second
of gc time, probably much less.

Will