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I distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my Symbolics locked up while it completed a GC.
by rfreytag 9y ago
I distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my Symbolics locked up while it completed a GC.
- flavio81 9y agoCan't help but recall this quote: "Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer -- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. " -- from "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal" http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
- TeMPOraL 9y agoGCs are better these days. And you're much more likely to wait on IO anyway, at every granularity level in the system.
- cat199 9y agoI distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my PC locked up while it completed a Win32 load.