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Re: generational GC
> I guess that what we really are trying to address here is the fact
> that already a "plain" newly booted Guile consumes about half of its
> execution time in GC. With more cells allocated for code and data,
> this fraction grows.
>
> We want to take away the "unnecessary" work done by the GC on code and
> on semi-permanent data.
We also should try to make less work for the GC, by avoiding consing
up local environments until they're closed over.