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From: mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: long pauses when running C64 basic
Message-ID: <2895@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 00:15:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 00:15:57 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 09:58:46 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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I'm running a terminal/modem program written in Basic (basically the
program from Byte earlier this year).  It uses strings, but they're all
initialized at the beginning of the program and never grow or shrink
thereafter.  Yet I still occasionally see basic pausing for 25 seconds
or so, presumably doing a garbage collection.  Is there any way to
avoid this?  It's not the delay that's the problem, but the resulting
loss of characters from the host is.
	Mark Plotnick
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