Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Wed, 7 May 2014 05:34:02 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 05:34:02 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 14-05-009 14-05-012 14-05-019
Keywords: GC, comment
Posted-Date: 09 May 2014 19:54:19 EDT

On 2014-05-06, mac <acolvin@efunct.com> wrote:
> The runtime system borrowed the teletype (stdout) buffer for temporary
> storage during GC. The same trick was used for Dartmouth XPL.


So if debug prints were needed out of the GC itself, the device
could be used unbuffered?
[If you needed to. Things worked a lot better if you wrote in large chunks so you
didn't have to get swapped in for each character. -John]


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