Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mp 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 Article-I.D.: allegra.2895 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 Lines: 9 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 {far too many sites}!allegra!mp