[gclist] More questions for the FAQ

[John R Levine]

> > No.  'Save' needs to be very fast, since you want to be able to save
> > your work every paragraph or so in case of a computer crash.
> 
> OK, but that means a gc is slower than a save to disk.  True?
> I skept.

I think this decision dates back to the 8088, when disks were slow, but 
the CPU was really, really, slow.

Can't say this has much to do with current GC issues, though.  On my 
Pentium laptop, Save As is plenty fast.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Trumansburg NY
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