Re: A89: garbage
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Re: A89: garbage
In a message dated 9/10/99 10:42:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Sassamo16@aol.com writes:
> 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.
>
Nope, it copies them to ram to execute, but that's it. Thus you must have
enough free memory equal to the size of the program (plus any memory it
requires while running). Also, doors doesn't copy them back into the archive.