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Subject: Re: AppleSoft free memory without using FRE(0)
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Brian Patrie <bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net> writes:

> On 2016-02-28 22:58, awanderin wrote:
>> You could also do a ProDOS "FRE" followed by the applesloth FRE(0) and
>> get your number fairly quickly.  If you don't have much string action in
>> your program, the Applesoft FRE(0) is not going to take long anyhow.
>
> I'd tried that; FRE(0) still took ever. (The immediately relevant
> program is a catalog browser, that uses several large arrays.)

Oh right, I forgot that BASIC.SYSTEM actually turns on TRACE mode and
hides the output, so that it can spy on variable use after each
statement.  I believe that is how it auto-issues the FRE command.

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