Re: [MacPerl] efficiency & memory

["Mark Manning/Muniz Eng." <markem@flash.net>]

Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> You're bumping your head on the Mac limitation, where all required
> memory needs to be allocated to the program beforehand. If it's far too
> much, tough luck for the other programs, but if it's too little, tough
> luck on you!
> 
> Hmm... This makes one daydream. What if MacPerl could get more memory
> from the system pool, if what was allocated to the program just isn't
> enough. Just like the Finder does.
> 
> Or, what if a droplet could determine how much memory MacPerl should
> request from the system, when it starts up. Typically, most scripts
> needs a lot less memory than just a few exceptions, like this one.

Been there - done that.  :-)  Requested this feature some time back and
others were not too happy about it.  However, BBEdit does this, FoxBase
does it, FoxPro does it, MS-Word does it.  Bees do it, birds do it, even
MacPerl should do it - let's do it - let's use VM.  :-)

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