On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:53:38PM -0800, David Hanley wrote:
> 
> I noticed my heap was growing every time i compiled &
> loaded my program.
> 
> Is this a known problem?  is there a workaround/fix?

It's probably just an artifact of generational GC. Probably the function
definitions are being promoted to a more senior generation since they
are bound to interned symbols. Old LW implementations (4.1) would
require one to run an explicit mark-and-sweep before such values were
collected, IIRC.

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