The document about ORO Memory Management has been reworked to incorporate optimizations introduced in version 10.0 of newLISP due in the last quarter of 2008.
See here: http://www.newlisp.org/MemoryManagement.html
ps: the current 9.9.x development versions are precursors to 10.0
New edition of ORO Memory Management document
Very nice Lutz. Memory management theories and approaches are topics relevant to my interests.
Quick typo noticed
Quick typo noticed
"Nevertheless, to achieve maximum performance, newLISP has optimized the behavior or many built-in functions by allowing for reference return and allowing other destructive built-in function to work directly on referenced memory."