20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
12:48 p.m.
what, you don't have an HP calc yet? Do you have a
pulse?
:-)
Personally I don't use them as rpn calcs. I did 10 years ago when I
You use an HP calcuator in infix mode? THat's perverse...
had a 48? for a while. What I can't stand is the
flushing of the stack
or whatever happens that locks up my 49g for 2-3 seconds. It's a real
It's garbage-collecting. The system is forever creating temporary
objects, and when memory gets tight it searches for those that are no
longer referenced anywhere and deletes them. This takes a bit of time.
You can force a garbage colelction by MEM DROP. MEM returns the amount
of free memory, so it has to d oa garbage collection first, so as to know
what memeory really is free. Since you don't want this value, you DROP
it.
Doing this doesn't prevent the pause, but it means you can get it to
happen at a convenient time. I did this a lot when I was writing soem
time-critical code to send/receive stuff over the serial port.
hemorrhoid. The 50g does it too I imagine, haven't
had it out in a while.
It doens, but I suspect the faster ARM processor means it takes less time.
-tony