> What I'd dread is writing the garbage collector in assembly. Then don't. If you're just building a lisp just so you can bootstrap your lisp compiler in lisp,

> What I'd dread is writing the garbage collector in assembly. Then don't. If you're just building a lisp just so you can bootstrap your lisp compiler in lisp, the free-everything-and-quit should be a good enough GC strategy, and quite quick too.