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Article #23801Re: Multifinder woes. DA's
From: Phil Goldman
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1988 19:41
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1988 19:41
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In article <2388@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu (Marc Kaufman) writes: >...I think it is unfriendly to ask applications to include >an additional 1 or 2 Megabytes in the SIZE resource, just so I can lay >out the page (high resolution pages, in color). Since the MAC is nominally >a "single user" machine, why not allow an application to request a non- >contiguous memory allocation. I know that there are potential fragmentation >problems, but we are probably not launching arbitrary user tasks while this >extra memory is in use, and in any event the process can request just what >it needs -- which is more efficient than guessing at 'SIZE' time. > This is possible using the MultiFinder dynamic memory calls. In fact, this is a much preferred method for handling transient memory requests. -Phil Goldman Apple Computer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!claris!apple!goldman From: goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Multifinder woes. DA's Message-ID: <7152@apple.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 88 19:41:32 GMT References: <7965@j.ms.uky.edu> <411@ut-emx.UUCP> <7122@apple.UUCP> <937@usfvax2.UUCP> <1948@elrond.CalComp.COM> <2388@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 16