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

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 3/6/99 at 11:17 PM, Georg Bauer <Georg_Bauer@muensterland.org> wrote:

> In article <v04020a04b306e82e5fb6@[192.168.0.77]>,
>     pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Although memory isn't normally a problem for me (my notebook has 64
> MB, that's often enough), there is one problem with MacPer: it still
> uses the "old" static memory allocation. It would be much better if
> MacPerl could get it's memory from the system heap, as that wouldn't
> force one to change allocation parameters.

I may get accused of splitting hairs here, but you don't want to get
memory from the system heap, you want it from the process manager heap,
more commonly known as temp memory.  They are different things, though
unless you are writing Mac software, you probably don't care.

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



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