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"bare" lisp and AUTOLOAD properties
- To: GJC at MIT-MC
- Subject: "bare" lisp and AUTOLOAD properties
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 81 18:19:00 GMT
- Cc: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC, JPG at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 17 FEB 1981 1319-EST
By a very clever sharing arrangement, the presence of the
initial AUTOLOAD properties takes up verry little space --
so little in fact, that they merely took up the "slop" in
the remaining (formerly unused) part of PURE list/symbol
structure. We've also been very careful to delete something
less desirable, when some new autoloadable property goes in.
There is of course a trade-off here between inconvenience to
the "naive" maclisp user, and the address-starved Macsyma,
but it's not clear what of the current autoloadables should
be flushed, even if there were the opportunity to flush
enough to make up 1K of space.