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One of the things I'm often curious about is how various BASIC interpreters organize memory for string storage. You'd think there's some way to reclaim memory
by tailrecursion 14d ago
One of the things I'm often curious about is how various BASIC interpreters organize memory for string storage. You'd think there's some way to reclaim memory after an expression involving intermediate strings is finished. But you don't see descriptions for how BASIC works in this regard.
- whartung 13d agoIts talked about here: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Garbage_Collection https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Garbage_Collection The process they used was simple, but brutal.