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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: long pauses when running C64 basic
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 11:59:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 11:59:37 1984
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There should be another way to get around the garbage collects.  In
microsoft BASIC, the FRE function does a garbage collect before reporting
the free memory space.  If you do a X=FRE(X) every couple hundred GET#'s,
the garbage collection will be performed in a situation where there is
little garbage, which will minimize the length of dead time during the
garbage collect.  This will allow you to use BASIC's admittedly pitiful I/O
rather than resorting to peeks and pokes.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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