Re: [MacPerl] efficiency & memory

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur) writes:
>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.

Yes, I've thought about this as well. However, this is not as simple as it
looks, because MacPerl does not free all memory allocated during a script
execution: Some blocks are allocated once and then reused until MacPerl quits,
and it would be intolerable IMHO if any of them came to reside in a temporary
memory partition. It is not easy either to identify these long lived blocks.

I'll think about this subject some more, however.

Matthias

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