35.1. Introduction
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35.1. Introduction

Knowing that most malloc implementations are buggy and/or slow, and because CLISP needs to perform garbage-collection, CLISP has its own memory management subsystem in files src/spvw*.d, see Section 34.3.1.2, “Internal C Modules”.

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