Tiny/embedded Scheme - Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC

Probably not. You may note that the %collected value for conses is much higher than for anything else; this reflects the fact that the interpreter (this Lisp engine is entirely interpreted) uses conses heavily for its internal lists. By setting breakpoints in gdb, I find that, immediately after the last gc before printing the first prompt, there are 2328 conses in use - but doing (assq '%cons (gc-stats)) at that prompt prints 4698, and doing it again immediately reports 25428 conses in use - but it also triggers a gc, after which gdb says there are 2486 conses in use, so the gc probably happens after (gc-stats) sampled the values but before the top-level read-eval-print loop printed the result. Those 2328 and 2486 values probably _are_ mostly representations of code; though they do include the then-current state of the interpreter stacks, those stacks are usually relatively small at that point, maybe a few hundred conses I'd say (this based largely on past experience watching output with internal debugging turned on, which dumps all the interpreter stacks every interpreter cycle). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B