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8.5 Promotion

Promotion is the process of moving objects from one generation to the next generation. An object is marked for promotion after surviving a specific number of mark and sweep operations, but may be promoted before that. The number of survivals is specific to each segment, and can be set by set-promotion-count .


LispWorks User Guide - 18 Feb 2003

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