fill the vector with zeroes, even when it is not needed (as for
platforms with conservative GC or for arrays of unboxed objectes) and
is performed later explicitely.
+
+(This is harder than it might look at first glance, as MAKE-ARRAY is smart
+enough to eliminate something like ':initial-element 0'. Such an optimization
+is valid if the vector is being allocated in the heap, but not if it is being
+allocated on the stack. You could remove this optimization, but that makes
+the heap-allocated case somewhat slower...)
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a. Accessing raw slots in structure instances is more inefficient than