Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

> That way, I can rest assured 
> that it's not going to do the same thing on stage or whatever.

Agreed, and there's a whole body of work on incremental
garbage-collection technology specially designed for systems where
realtime response is important (like, say, musical instruments). The
SuperCollider synthesis package does incremental GC, for example.

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