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In article <1670@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
- In article <19880427223042.6.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
- ->    On startup of a GEM program all available memory is allocated (and zeroed).
- ->								  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ->Is THAT why every time I add more memory to my 520 I have to wait longer
- ->after loading an image before it starts running????  Does anyone know of
- ->a way to disable this 'feechur'?
- 
- short
- of patching Mshrink, i don't know how to disable this, as you put it,
- 'feechur'. actually, i like the fact that i'll always get space filled
- with zeros.

Yes, this is why it takes so long for a program to start doing something.
It seems the routine to write zeroes is poorly written. I noticed it when
I upgraded to 1 Meg. I believe a fix for this is one of the items in the
new ROMs in the Megas -- it wouldn't do to have the machine look slow
even before the memory is expanded!
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