On 16/04/17 13:59, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
I never realized garbage collection in the BASIC interpreter could create such a noticeable slow down.
I was reminiscing about this only a few days ago. I did work experience for a company back in the early 80's that wrote a point of sale system on a cash register. It turned out to be a CBM style machine underneath, and every now and then it would pause while garbage collecting. I think the work around was to use the FRE() function repeatedly before GC was incurred (at which point it was time expensive to run), and during a point where there would be pausing anyway (e.g. during receipt printing). Good times (I think). I wonder if the M100's basic sports a similar function? -- Regards, Daryl Tester Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd.
