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1 - a whole lot of OO and functional Lisp programs use your "very special" pattern of short lived allocations.

2 - You can rig the game so generational GC beats malloc/free.

3 - It's not a criticism, it's a general principle. One always pays for performance. If your performance requirements are low enough, you can even take out a loan on them, so to speak, by using a more expressive language.



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