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- From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 20 MHz 64... Does it scream?
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 21:22:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- In <Pine.BSI.3.91.960225223612.2338B-100000@wichita.fn.net> Nate Dannenberg <tron@wichita.fn.net> writes:
- >Fix the Garbage collection bug that causes such bad delays (the C128 can=20
- >do a full garbage collect in a few seconds...the C64 can take up to two=20
- >HOURS)
-
- Well, the garbage collection slowness is not so much a bug but a poor
- implementation. I have been meditating about this with a friend who
- has a few Apple ][ clones (they have the same problem) and we could
- think of various methods to make it faster, but none of them were
- very simple.
-
- -Olaf.
- --
- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl The only excuse
- \X/ for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. -O.W.
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