Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

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Evaluate 1 + 1 + 1 to 3 using a binary tree. Bringing our total per node to 32 (node size) + 16 (malloc header) = 48 bytes! At 48 bytes per node, that’s ~62. 4 GB worth of node allocations.

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