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| Kaz Kylheku to mac |
| Re: Historical Implementations to Garbag |
| 07 May 14 05:34:02 |
From: kaz@kylheku.com
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]
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