List Commands Library for 50g

[DavidM]

Hey Scott -

My earlier comments were about a specific technique that saves a list to USEROB so that its exploded elements don't bog down GCs that occur while processing. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to nail down an effective way to do that such that a list which starts out in TEMPOB is freed up during the processing phase of the command -- the O/S keeps an active reference to the TEMPOB version so that it can't be freed during a GC, thus taking up twice the space that is actually needed.

I only recall a little bit about the program you were working on, but isn't the bulk of your data in the form of strings? I'm wondering if you could avoid some of this by keeping your string data separate from other data you might want to save in a list. It's still likely that a copy of the string would have to be made each time you manipulate it, but GCs shouldn't be as much of a problem as they can be with lists. Would it be possible for you to combine multiple strings into a single string object by inserting separation characters?