Closures and Garbage

• Note that creating a closure allocates memory and can be a source of garbage and slowness.

• If the closure can be allocated on the stack, then do so using dynamic-extent.

(defun add-to-list (num list)

(labels ((adder (x) (+ x num)))

(declare (dynamic-extent #’adder))

(mapcar #’adder list)))

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