Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly 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 Lines: 18 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 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 "Sometimes, Penfold, I wish I was just drawing the cartoons, not starring in them."