Re: [MacPerl] Memory (was: MacPerl and XML Modules)

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 3/6/99 at 9:15 AM, Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> wrote:

> But now an aside. Is anyone else concerned about memory and Perl? 
> Memory footprints are getting larger.  CPAN.pm and its dependencies
> needs at least 20, 30 preferred, to run well.  Doesn't bother me much
> because I have 160MB of RAM.  And even if you are too short on RAM to
> run CPAN.pm, you can use the untarzipme and installme droplets, which
> don't use CPAN.pm.  But still, memory requirements seem to be getting
> worse.
> 
> I guess my question is this:  who is finding a lack of RAM is a real
> hindrance to doing the work they want to do with MacPerl?

Forgive me if this sounds naive, but I haven't been using MacPerl for
very lon :-)

Are you saying 20 to 30MB of app heap?  I wonder, if this is true, if
Perl can be made to use temp when appropriate, like BBEdit does, so the
app heap can be small, and you can get the memory you need as long as it
is available.

This doesn't, however, alleviate the need to have that much memory in
the first place.

(The ram use probably won't bother me either, my powerbook has 192MB and
my desktop has 228MB.  However, there isn't much need to be wasteful if
you don't need to be, and I probably wouldn't have that much memory if
the software I needed to run all the time to get my job done wasn't so
much of a pig when it comes to RAM usage.)

-- 
Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>



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