Re: [MacPerl] Perl Shared Library (was Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds)

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 1/24/99 at 13:58, schinder@pobox.com (Paul J. Schinder) wrote:

> Good Lord, why do you waste your time?  No Unix will permit a process to
> trash another's memory partition, and an errant process can never hog the
> machine, so there's absolutely no problem just proceeding.  That's what
> being buzzword compliant, "protected memory", "preemptive multi-tasking",
> means.  In general there's never a reason to reboot a Unix machine.  Let
> power failures take care of it :-)

I know about the buzzword stuff, but was skeptical because NT also claims to
be bulletproof yet in my somewhat limited experience with it, I have grown
rather dubious about that. It's nice to know that unix actually works as
advertised in this regard. 

On 1/24/99 at 11:21, blm@halcyon.com (Brian L. Matthews) wrote:

> *If* your premise is correct I'd agree, but I don't believe it is. I've
> developed software on the Mac, on numerous flavors of Unix, and on
Windows.
> When I'm developing on a Mac, 10 or more reboots a day isn't uncommon.
When
> I develop on Unix (assuming I'm working on an app and not a driver or the
> kernel), the only time I'd reboot would be after a power outage or to
> install new hardware or something.

That's pretty impressive. I've never made any serious development attempts
under unix and just assumed that it would be similar to developing under Mac
or Win as far as bizarre fireworks are concerned.

Working with MacPerl, I can't say that I've had an inordinate number of
crashes except when testing certain cgis. In other contexts, I don't
generally crash, but often get Out of Memory! Out of Memory! errors that may
or may not be resolved by bumping the memory allocation up. I do get
occasional freezes when running things via the MacPerl extensions to BBEdit
5.01, but I think that the latter has some problems that don't have much to
do with MacPerl.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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