> My guess is that GC costs could `easily' be cut in 2 by inlining forward. Here are the results of two profiled self compiles. The first is with forward not inlined. The second is with forward inlined. non-inlined GC cost 15.32% (+ 12.17 3.14 0.01) inlined GC cost 14.89% (+ 14.86 0.02 0.01)