Subject: Re: bug#15405: 24.3; #[] freezes emacs

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:51:55 -0400

>> If performance didn't motivate making a global zero_vector, what did?

IIRC such small objects were too small for the memory allocation
routines, so it was easier to handle them this way.

        Stefan