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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: long pauses when running C64 basic
Message-ID: <532@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 18:52:28 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.532
Posted: Tue Dec  4 18:52:28 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:20:48 EST
References: <85@unc.UUCP> <43@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Reply-To: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <43@vax2.fluke.UUCP> kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>There should be another way to get around the garbage collects.
>If you do a X=FRE(X) every couple hundred GET#'s,
>the garbage collection will be performed in a situation where there is
>little garbage, which will minimize the length of dead time during the
>garbage collect.

I saw an article, I believe by Jim Butterfield, which said the major delay
in C64 garbage collection was in looking for the garbage, not in freeing
it, and hence using FRE() would not help.
-- 

Bill Kelly
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