15:06:18rmfrno time to explain. does anyone remember article (old!) about some LISP system when authors decided to never run GC. For gc they just rebooted system.
15:06:52pjbrmfr: no article reference, but it's common lore about early lisp machines, indeed.
15:07:19pjbrmfr: note that you could do the same for most tasks today too.
15:07:28rmfrI indeed remember article, authors compared performance with C++ (and won, ofcoz)