Tag: memorymanagement

• Making space for closures

  28 September 2026 | Series: buildingskate | Tags: retrocomputing, scheme, z80, closures, memorymanagement

  

  Skate implements lexical closures using heap binding records and pointers. Following a small adder example shows how those bindings survive a procedure call on a Z80.

• Building a heap out of slabs

  25 September 2026 | Series: buildingskate | Tags: retrocomputing, scheme, z80, cpm, memorymanagement, garbagecollection

  

  Skate divides its small heap into 256-byte pages. Pairs, bindings, closures, strings and vectors can then share the available memory without fixed reservations for each type.