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Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

From Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors
Date 2014-05-07 05:34 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <14-05-022@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References <14-05-009@comp.compilers> <14-05-012@comp.compilers> <14-05-019@comp.compilers>

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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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Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "lpsantil@gmail.com" <lpsantil@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 16:02 -0400
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2014-05-04 07:04 +0000
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-04 19:06 +1000
    Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-05-05 00:47 +0000
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-06 01:23 +1000
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-06 10:55 -0400
        Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-07 00:12 -0400
          Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-21 18:37 +1000
            Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-05-22 13:37 +0200
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2014-05-06 18:02 +0000
        Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-05-07 05:34 +0000
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2014-05-05 08:28 -0500
    Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-05-06 20:23 -0700

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