Re: A89: garbage

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Subject: Re: A89: garbage
From: "Niklas Brunlid" <e96nbr@efd.lth.se>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:33:36 +0200
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> i'm not totally sure, but I think that when you run some archived programs,
> doors will unarchive it, run it, then re archive it when you are done with
> it.  Repeating that many times, depending on the size of the file, and how
> much memory you have free, it will cause a garbage collection like usual.

If DoorsOS uses its own userlib::exec then it simply allocates a memory block,
copies the archived file, relocates it, executes it, and then de-allocates the
memory block. Even if it *did* re-archive it it would put it in the same place
(I think) so it won't cause any garrbage collection - it never creates any files
in RAM, just memory blocks.

 / Niklas Brunlid
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Re: A89: garbage

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