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From: Jonas Kvist <c93jonkv@und.ida.liu.se>
Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
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Richard Villanueva wrote:
> Actually, my friend is a system and network administrator.  I recently got
> the free version of Allegro Common Lisp for Windows, and unless I am
> horribly mistaken, I saw it pause for a painful length of time to do garbage
> collection.
[snipp]
I wouldn't draw the conclusion that the GC was to blame for a long pause when running under Windows.
As far as I am concerned, that pause might just as well be a "feature" from dear Microsoft. :)

Sorry if I'm a bit out of line,
/Jonas

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