Re: [MacPerl] buffer size?

[Brad Hanson <bradh@pobox.com>]

On 11/10/98 at 9:36 AM, irons@espresso.hampshire.edu (Nathaniel Irons)
wrote:

> On 11/10/98 at 8:51 AM, pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  The limitations are to the MacPerl windows only.  Output
> > to a file is unlimited, and output to an external editor may
> > be limited by Apple Event limitations (whatever they may be).
> 
> BBEdit crashes on receipt of more than about 450K of data at a time
> (using Brad's fantastic BBEdit plug-ins).

The 450K limit on the amount of data returned to BBEdit from MacPerl can
be increased by increasing the memory allocation of BBEdit. I've done
tests where over 2 MB was returned to a BBEdit window from MacPerl.

It is certainly a bad thing that BBEdit crashes (or sometimes quits with
an out of memory alert) when the amount of text returned by MacPerl is too
large, but I have not found a way to deal with this in the plug-ins. I
think fixing this problem would require the attention of Bare Bones
Software.

Brad



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