Re: [MacPerl] looking at Mac OS X

["Raffael Cavallaro" <raffael@mediaone.net>]

>From: Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>

> Crashes every day in Photoshop?  What on earth are ya'll doing?

Editing 100MB files with seven layers. This is on a machine with 192MB of
real RAM, giving Photoshop a 120MB partition. This is *immediately* after
running DiskFirstAid, or TechTool Pro and finding no errors, on physical
media, hardware, System Files, or user files. The problem is, application
software, even releases from major houses like Adobe, is *rife* with bugs,
usually pointer bugs that lead to invalid memory writes. On a stable
platform, the errant process is quickly euthanized by the OS. On the Mac,
you're dropped into MacBug, where, a good third of the time, you still can't
fix the problem, and need to rs.

See, many users say "oh, my machine never crashes using application X," but
they don't really stress application X in the way the professionals do.
Neither do software houses properly  stress test (or, I'd say, properly
coverage test) their code. This is how I crash Photoshop at least once a
day, when using it heavily.

raf

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