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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.2-b2 is released
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Steven L Baur writes:
 > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
 > 
 > > What are the side-effects?  I certainly like the speedup (5% is an
 > > excellent speedup) -- but will it cause increased memory usage, or
 > > some other undesirable effect?
 > 
 > Let me quote all of the documentation: :-/
 > 
 > /* There's not any particular reason not to use lrecords for these; some
 >    objects get slightly larger, but we get 3 bit tags instead of 4.
 >  */

By "these" I believe the comment meant making vectors use lrecords
also.  Otherwise it makes no sense, as we still had 4 bit tags (3
type bits + 1 gc mark bit) even with LRECORD_SYMBOL defined.

