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Article #20226Re: Possible LSC improvements
From: Richard Siegel
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1987 13:37
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1987 13:37
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My personal preference is not to use a cache; crashing doesn't worry me
because I always save my source files before I run. What worries me is
that a bad pointer could possibly corrupt the cache without crashing the
machine, and cause garbage to be written out to disk when the cache is flushed.
I don't know if that's a valid worry, but I prefer not to use the cache.
The user can tell if the cache is turned on, and I suppose LightspeedC
could detect whether it's turned on, but it's impossible to know *where*
above BufPtr the cache is. Very often the cache isn't the only thing in
high memory.
It's an interesting idea, but it's not likely to get much consideration
at the moment...
--Rich
**The opinions stated herein are my own opinions and do not necessarily
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Possible LSC improvements Message-ID: <2986@husc6.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 09:37:51 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2986 Posted: Tue Oct 13 09:37:51 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 06:47:41 EDT References: <2071@sfsup.UUCP| <170026@acf3.NYU.EDU> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Richard Siegel) Organization: THINK Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA Lines: 23