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Lisp had a GC in the 1960s when 7mb of disk was hard to come by, let alone ram.
by danielheath 6y ago
Lisp had a GC in the 1960s when 7mb of disk was hard to come by, let alone ram.
- mumblemumble 6y agoLisp also had a reputation for wasting memory. The joke, from back when 4MB was still a lot of RAM, was that emacs is an acronym for "eight megabytes, all continuously swapping."