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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:24:41 PDT
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- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Question about stems and storage...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 2 Sep 1992 17:51:47 +02 from <stud02@CC4.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
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- Freeing storage (several Kb per stem) Chris, it's only virtual storage.
- Saving "several Kb" of virtual storage, unless there are hundreds of
- them to save, is probably not even worth a second thought. Unless you
- are running up against a 16M boundary (which currently constrains REXX)
- I suggest you not worry about it.
-
- But your basic point is valid, suppose it were several Mb per socket.
- Then the way to do it would be to make each socket be its own stem, and
- use VALUE a lot. That way, when you dropped a socket, you WOULD drop
- the whole stem. Another solution would be to beat on your vendor to
- support a garbage collect routine that could be called when you were
- dropping something big. Good luck. Dave
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