Comment by junke

Is there an explanation of the memory allocation used? There seem to be a GC (https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp/blob/master/src/gc.c), maybe used in the compiler only, coupled with lifetime analysis (https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp/blob/8665a7f9a19d9347cc0...), which as far as I know is used once (https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp/blob/6107e619d4f632acace...) in the compiler. This analysis seems tied to the manual "reset!" special form which apparently frees any existing data bound to a symbol. So, what happens when lifetime analysis cannot determine lifetime? what about stack-allocation? What should I worry about when programming in Carp w.r.t. memory?