In message 3D0188D6.5999ED4B@chello.nl, Segher Boessenkool writes:
- garbage collect. ouch.
- in dictionary or similar --> never freed
- in "string buffers" -- either 1 or 2, but both problems
less severe.
3.5) A fixed number of static fixed-length buffers that are treated as a ring of least-recently-used buffers. The Open Firmware spec requires at least two. We typically use two buffers for " and another two for s" just to make sure that they don't step on each other.
The idea is that since only two are required by the spec, all development code should be able to run with at least two, and thus increasing the number later or for a specific port won't cause portability problems (as going the other way would).
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