Why "Objects are only deleted on idle"?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Sep 23 12:58:32 EDT 2015


Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> I'm having a hard time conceiving of a circumstance in which it's
>> necessary o build a large number of objects only to delete them again in
>> the same handler.
>
> Printing.

Ah - thanks.

Print spooling in the OS is often so slow, does this really make an 
appreciable difference?

Are there any use cases outside of printing where this might be useful?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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