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Yeah, the Lisp world figured out cdr-coding in the 1970s and had moved on to chains of vectors by 1985 according to https://cpsc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/tr362.pdf. Fortunately they avoided changing the API to make this tradeoff.



Afaik the only modern Lisp implementation that actually uses these techniques is Clojure.




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