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I once read that in the olden days, one would work away on a machine for some time, and when evening came, you'd start the garbage collection process to write a
by smokel 3y ago
I once read that in the olden days, one would work away on a machine for some time, and when evening came, you'd start the garbage collection process to write all relevant data to tape, from which you'd start again the next morning.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi'm not sure if this is related, but i think Lisp systems traditionally let you save the core image to restart in the same state.
- mepian 3y agoI think this was being done to the earlier versions of the system, before the GC described in the paper was implemented.
- lispm 3y agoYes, the ephemeral GC was a huge improvement.
- whartung 3y agoFolklore I heard was that after a long day of use it was just faster to restart than let the full GC run.