🚀 go-pugleaf

ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab) writes:
>         You can force the system to purge all loaded fonts and libraries
> that are not currently in use by trying to allocate four gigabytes of RAM:
> 
>         AllocMem (4000000000L, NULL);
> 
>         This will always fail (unless you actually happen to *have* four
> gigabytes of RAM hanging around (or if AmigaDOS/Kickstart ever goes
> virtual)).

Which sounds to me like a good reason you might not want to pull
such a trick -- if Amigos (how's that for a name for the Amiga
operating system) ever does go virtual, the call might actually
succeed.  You might want to put in a sanity check so that if the call
*does* succeed, the memory is deallocated.

Perhaps better would be an Exec call to automatically flush non-used
libraries and fonts from memory.  Does one exist?  Is it a good idea
for random programs to be flushing things that might be better off
cached?

			--M

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