Re: Reading portions of large files

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Cons cells are not integers.  Care to explain for somebody dull?

Cons cells don't have a header, so they need to use the mark-bit of one
of their components, meaning that anything you can store into a
cons-cell needs a mark-bit.

I wonder how feasible it would be to use another sort of GC, like
stop-and-copy, which doesn't need mark-bits...

-Miles
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