Well then that idea is out.
How big are lisp objects, anyways? If they’re too big you might have to deal with memory anyways. E.g. ruby is moving from 5 word objects to 6 or 8 word objects (because they fit more evenly into cache lines). Yes, you read that correctly, that’s 8 words of 8 bytes each or 64 bytes per object, which pushes the total belt size on small mills already, let alone returning half a dozen of them.
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Joe Taber.