🚀 go-pugleaf

G'day,

MM> In article <MWM.90Sep25180852@raven.pa.dec.com>, mwm@raven.pa.dec.com
MM> (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: 

MM> I've just started poking at this, because one of the changes to mg3
MM> before the release is going to be ditching the linked list of lines in
MM> favor of a buffer gap editor. Making the editor page to disk after
MM> this is done would be simple, but it's not clear even that's worth the
MM> trouble.

I guess that is really a "marketing" question and not one of technical degree
(as you mention). This could be put to the mg3 user population ...

MM> [...your buffer gap editor ideas. Go for it Mike! :-)...]

MM> The obvious "tmp" place is ram, which doesn't buy anything. Likewise,
MM> paging to floppy doesn't buy much. I tend to agree with Dave - with a
MM> 1 meg nominal minimum machine, and those with hard disks probably
MM> having more, there's not much reason to want to page to disk, and the
MM> space/time spent on that code can probably be put to better use.

I prompted the original note stream but I do admit it might be painful to use
mem paging on a minimal system. However at this point in time the only choice
is to buy more RAM and while I agree that is preferable I _believe_ that many
users would like a choice.

MM> Anyone have any comments?

I'm in a marketing frame of mind re this problem (and so it is probably not a
c.s.a.t type of discussion now...).

I believe that I read that some (all) Mac s/ware for non MMU capable Macs can
page memory (I don't know first hand, sorry) and similarly for Windows 3.0. I
am not one of those "they have, we should have it" cry babies however. I just
think it makes sense.

My thoughts are that if all s/w writers could choose to support a mem. paging
(Dave Haynie suggests a swapping library) system that nonMMU (hence virt. mem
Amiga OS support..one day) Amiga owners would have more choice in s/w and RAM
configurations.

I appreciate your point re: whether the space/time spent on the code would be
worth it to you. I say that for you go for the most worthwhile choices.

However as I've hoped for a while (and Dave suggested in an earlier post) the
effort here should probably be done once only. If there were a (hypothetical)
swapping.library available would you put in hooks to use it?

MM> 	<mike

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.