X-Received: by 10.50.73.132 with SMTP id l4mr3875006igv.5.1399679659796; Fri, 09 May 2014 16:54:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!r10no2572430igi.0!news-out.google.com!dz10ni37438qab.1!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Kaz Kylheku Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 05:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 8 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-022@comp.compilers> References: <14-05-009@comp.compilers> <14-05-012@comp.compilers> <14-05-019@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399679659 40159 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (9 May 2014 23:54:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 23:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: GC, comment Posted-Date: 09 May 2014 19:54:19 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1247 On 2014-05-06, mac 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]