Guido> I worry that dropping the special allocator will be too slow.
Greg> Surely there's some compromise that would allow recently-used ints
Greg> to be kept around, but reclaimed if memory becomes low?
Martin> Hardly. The efficiency of the special-case allocator also comes
Martin> from the fact that it doesn't ever have to release memory. Just
Martin> try changing it to see what I mean.
Wouldn't use of obmalloc offset much of that? Before obmalloc was
available, the int free list was a huge win. Is it likely to be such a huge
win today?
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